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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to our 11th international film festival.
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REBECCA TUCKER: The community really
stands behind this festival.
They come out nine o'clock in the morning, 200 or 300 people,
and then of course the numbers increase throughout the day.
VW SCHEICH: It's made tremendous strides.
I mean, it's now five days longer--
so it's five days in a row, rather.
And just the make up in the lobby alone, I'm standing in,
it's just--
it's so awesome.
They really up their game every year a little
bit more and more.
JOE BELLAVIA: The festival is stellar.
The hospitality, the amount of effort
put into everything, how they set it up
through like social media, and seeing
like them posting our trailers and stuff like that.
So to get the community people excited about us coming,
it's been a fantastic experience.
MARCIA CHANDLER RAY: I have been, for about 10 years
from the very first one.
So I'll be presenting tonight, I think, the 8th screenplay
that I've had.
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TOPHER MARAFFI: When I came here,
I thought it would be a great thing, if you
have a international film festival on campus,
in a lot of other places there's also some kind of conference
or something that has classes and things like that.
So I thought, well why don't we start with a symposium.
We had an award winning filmmaker from BIFF who--
VW Scheich.
He's worked on all kinds of big movies,
as well as done his own films that have won People's Choice
Awards at BIFF.
And we had numerous faculty from USCB,
from the communications department,
from the art department.
It is now an official USCB event.
VW SCHEICH: Yeah, you know, in the past,
there wasn't an educational part of this festival, necessarily.
And the fact that they've added that really just shows they're
kind of looking out to ways to make things better.
SEAN KINGSBURY: I think it's really interesting
to have folks who have some sort of industry experience,
whether it's teaching, like I do, or filmmakers come in
and just talk to community members
and talk to the attendees, to just kind of see
how the sausage is made behind the scenes.
And I think a lot of the presentations
in a lot of different ways of looking at how
to create an impactful film.
ANNOUNCER: And the winner for best feature is--
"Saturn Returns".
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SHAWN TOLLESON: I'm just incredibly honored
and just so grateful, grateful to be included in the festival,
and to have the film be recognized.
It's really very special.
JULIE DASH: This is a wonderful award,
and I'm understanding it's the first time
that this particular award has been given out to a filmmaker.
So I'm like, wow!
This is really great.
I've heard about the Beaufort Film Festival for some time.
I have many friends who have had films playing in the festival.
WALLY MARZANO LESNEVICH: Beaufort
has been so welcoming to us; the community
and the sold out screening that we had, and Rebecca and Ron's
remarkable growing festival.
And we've never been to Beaufort,
and so to come to find this incredible low country
town with a community that loves movies,
you know, it's really-- it's remarkable,
because that's why we do it.
You know, it's great to see other filmmakers,
but we do it for the audience.
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