UNC Charlotte’s first annual Gold Reel Film Festival will be taking place on Tuesday, April 29. The event will be held at 6 p.m. in McKnight Hall.

The film festival will highlight five different categories of film: short narrative, long narrative, animation and experimental, music and documentary. Another important part to the film festival is the screenplay segment.

According to Andrew Watkins, Film Club president, a screenplay is, “Literally the story on paper; it lays out all of the dialogue and stage directions.”

At the festival, the top three screenplay submissions will be performed live for the audience by a group of actors.

In total, there were around 102 submissions made for the festival this year.

“The majority came from (UNC Charlotte) students, but we also reached out to the Charlotte area and to the seven other UNC schools for submissions,” said Watkins.

“We actually received quite a number of submissions from UNC Greensboro,” he added.

A panel of three individuals came together to judge submissions for film entries while a panel of two judges assessed screenplay submissions. The judges consist of UNC Charlotte instructors and field professionals. Both panels sifted through the videos and
screenplays to pick the top three and top five films for each category.

These finalists will be presented during the festival. Awards will be given to the top submission from each of the categories. There will also be an award for the best overall video submission and a viewer’s choice award.

The Gold Reel Film Festival is organized entirely by students and is hosted by the UNC
Charlotte Film Club. For more information about the event or for more information on the film club, visit: http://unccfilm.wordpress.com/