CEA hosts 8th annual 5 Minute Film Festival

Logan Butts | 04/27/2021

Lipscomb University’s College of Entertainment and the Arts hosted the 8th annual 5 Minute Film Festival on Thursday night with a live, hybrid event that featured both in-person and virtual elements. 

For the first time in the festival’s history, the show was produced entirely by students. Phynley Joel, a junior cinematic arts major, led a production team of students that created all of the evening’s interstitials and sketches.

“Tonight, we’re not only here to honor the best of our students’ work; we also want to honor the faculty that made that work possible,” Director of the School of Theatre & Cinematic Arts Steve Taylor said during his opening remarks. 

Awards were handed out in 12 different categories, including animation, documentary, music video, and more during the two-hour ceremony. The winners were selected by an outside panel of 16 judges. Clips were shown from all of the official entrants, while the winners of each category were screened in their entirety. 

The Grand Prize winner was Muggy, directed by Joel, and it will be screened at the upcoming Nashville Film Festival. 

The Grand Prize winner in the animated short category, Usa directed by Lorna Wood, will also be screened at the Nashville Film Festival. 

Below you can find a list of all the winners from the ceremony. 

The full show can be viewed on the CEA Studios YouTube page.

 

Overall

Grand Prize: Muggy, directed by Phynley Joel

Second place (tie): Audrey Austen, directed by Haley Herold AND Basically Broke, directed by Sarah Brumagin & Kylie Renwick

Third place: Emotional Baggage, directed by Tiffani Alexander, produced by Sarah Barnes

AUDIENCE AWARD: Basically Broke, directed by Sarah Brumagin & Kylie Renwick

 

Best Animated Short

Grand Prize (which will be screened at the Nashville Film Festival): Usa by Lorna Wood

Second Place: Bearpuncher by Daniel Haycox

Third place (three-way tie): Chupacabra by Hayley Evans, The Real Humpty by Stephen Mitchell, and Sketchy Dealings by Audrey Witherspoon

AUDIENCE AWARD (tie): Sketchy Dealings by Audrey Witherspoon AND Cap of All Trades by Mackenna Hood

 

Best Music Video

Best Music Video (tie): “10.31 (Goin’ For It)” by Riley Buck, directed by Will Smitherman AND “Louisville” by Riley Buck, directed by Riley Buck & Phynley Joel

Second place: “Trigger” by Jordyn Kenzie, directed by Tyler Oaks

Third place: “Sit Back” by Zac Mason, directed by Naomie Ritchie Krause

AUDIENCE AWARD: “We Were So Close, But Now We’re So Far” by Mercury, directed by Kate Clawson

 

Best Short Documentary

Best Short Documentary: Athlete Activism, directed by Tia Calvin

Second place: Staying Home for the Holiday, directed by Abby Davis

Third place: COVID Kid, directed by Rachel Towle

AUDIENCE AWARD (tie): COVID Kid, directed by Rachel Towle AND Staying Home for the Holiday, directed by Abby Davis

 

Best Dance Video

Best Dance Video: Campus, choreography by Abby Charles, directed by Matt Huesmann

Second place: Ascend, choreography by DeVon Buchanan, directed by Corbin Schmidt

Third place: Keep On Dancin’, choreography by Leigh Anne Ervin, directed by Corbin Schmidt

 

Best Short Screenplay (unproduced)

Best short screenplay (tie): Child’s Play by Kate Vick and Guardians of the Genome by Sarah Houghton

Second place (tie): Jane Brain by Maddilyn Rimer and The Doll On Display by Abigail Willmore

Third place: Apollo and Hyacinth by Kyla Hawkins and Prophetic Nightmare by Mason Martin

 

Best Actress in a Narrative Short

Best Actress (tie): Audrey Venable in Audrey Austen AND Kylie Renwick in Emotional Baggage

Second place: Sophia Schrader in The Emancipation of Artemis

Third place: Kylie Renwick in Basically Broke

 

Best Actor in a Narrative Short

Best Actor: Jakholbi Murry in Interception

Second place: Brandon Runkel in Hunted

Third place (tie): Sam Jones in Emotional Baggage AND Aedan Farist in Heads or Tails

Best Cinematography in a Narrative Short

Best Cinematography in a Narrative Short: Corbin Schmidt for Basically Broke

Second place (three-way tie): Josh Bush for The Emancipation of Artemis, Phynley Joel for Muggy, and Tyler Oaks for Interception

 

Best Sound Design in a Narrative Short

Best Sound Design: Ellie Cagle and Lane Stanley for In Plain Sight

Second place (three-way tie): Meagan Brynne for A Dodge Place, Phynley Joel for Muggy AND Justice Skinner for Emotional Baggage

 

Best Cinematography in a Music Video

Best Cinematography in a Music Video: “Trigger” by Jordyn Kenzie, director of photography Tyler Oaks

Second place: “Lonely Man” by Aria Mae, director of photography Isabelle Leonard

Third place: “Tomodachi” by Tokiru,  director of photography Corbin Schmidt

 

Best Poster Design

Best Poster Design: Old Maid, poster design by Sheldon McMurtry and Sumner McMurtry

Second place: Bear Puncher, poster design by Daniel Haycox

Third place: Muggy, poster design by Phynley Joel

 

Lipscomb’s George Shinn College of Entertainment & the Arts offers undergraduate degrees in film production, fashion merchandising, fashion design, entertainment design, music composition, contemporary music, vocal performance, piano performance, instrumental performance, teaching, music, acting, directing, musical theater, theater ministry, theater teaching, studio art, graphic design, art therapy, visual arts administration, visual arts teaching and animation among other areas of study. Graduate programs include Master of Arts degrees in film and creative media, Master of Fine Arts degrees in film and creative media with writer and director tracks and a Master of Fine Arts/Master of Business Administration blended degree.

All photos were taken by senior film production major Ai Kojima.