Chambers wins One Day in April Scholarship
Junior Ashley Chambers is the first recipient of the One Day In April Scholarship, which supports production costs for the project of an aspiring filmmaker.
The One Day in April Scholarship will fund her production team’s making of Mutant Divorce Squad, a new short film about an enthusiastic singer in a garage rock band who overwhelms his band mates when they get an opportunity to make it big in the music scene.
The film will take about four months to complete, and Chambers will work with the $1,000 budget the scholarship allots. She is expected to share a link to the finished film by April 15.
“The scholarship is going to help us take our project to the next level,” Chambers said of Mutant Divorce Squad. “We saw it as a challenge to test what we’re capable of.”
The award was established earlier this year by the alumni team who produced One Day in April, a documentary about Little 500 that debuted at the Cinequest Film Festival in February and was shown in Bloomington the night before the 2015 Little 500 race in April.
The team includes Media School alumni Thomas Miller, BAJ’12; Peter Stevenson, BA’12; Kirsten Powell, BA’12; and Ryan Black, ’12.
They used proceeds from the screenings of One Day in April to fund the scholarship to support fledgling filmmakers in The Media School. The money will provide capital for costs such as camera or equipment rental and other production costs.
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