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Lumarda & Boyer By Jude Lucas, Visual & Performing Arts Chair
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eniors Malone Lumarda and Stephen Boyer have accumulated an astonishing amount of awards and accolades for their films during the last four years.
Malone Lumarda and Stephen Boyer holding their Arts Hall of Fame Awards.
the Best’ and ’Best US Narrative’ at the Lovett High School Film Festival in Atlanta, the Audience Award at the Santa Monica Teen Film Festival and the Best Live Action Film award at the Student Television Network Film Festival. In June, Boyer completed a 5-minute short film entitled Paradigm, which he also submitted to several festivals. Paradigm’s honest and simple story garnered it several awards, including: The Lizzie Award for Acting at the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival, the Finalist award at the Heartland Festival and the YoungArts Cinematic Competition, the Best High School Film award at the Reality Bytes Film Festival, the Juried High School Award at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival, the Best Teen Film Award at the YoungCuts Film Festival in Montreal, and, most significanltly, the Best Overall Film Award at the All-American High School Film Festival in New York City.
Lumarda receives his Award Citation and scholarship check from soundtrack composer Emilio Kauderer at the 20th LA Film Festival.
Lumarda spent his junior and senior year in LTV writing and working on films that spoke to a 21st century teen. Whether his topics were about the challenges of technology or the mystical sense of the outdoors, he came away with professional products and industry praise. Lumarda’s recent film, Black Rock Creek, has been accepted into 11 festivals and won Best Youth Film (13-17) at the Albany Film Festival in Albany, California. Black Rock Creek won the Hot Shot Award in the Sun Valley Film Festival and was mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter. Black Rock Creek is an Official Selection at: Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, Sun Valley Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, American Online Film Awards, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and Films for the Forest 2014, screening as part of South by Southwest. Another Lumarda film, The Farm was recently accepted into the Nashville Film Festival. The Farm has now been accepted into 35 festivals and Escaping the Island has been accepted into 13 festivals. Lumarda won a $1000 scholarship for best student film at the LA Film Festival in the summer 2013. In January 2013, Stephen Boyer completed his 11-minute short film, Opus. He proceeded to submit it to festivals across the country where it picked up several awards, most notably, ’Best of
Boyer with film producer, and All-American Film Festival creator, Andrew Jenks.
As a result of winning the Best Overall Film Award in New York, Stephen was hired to create a web pilot for Fandango as well as develop a cable show for Andrew Jenks; a notable television producer and the creator of the festival. Additionally, Boyer will be featured in Al Jazeera America’s documentary series, Edge of Eighteen, which is produced by Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney. Check out this link of the documentary. Lumarda will attend the University of Southern California film school in the fall and Boyer will be in the electronic media department at the California State University at Long Beach. Keep your eyes on these two as you may see their work on the big screen soon. SUMMER 2014
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