{"id":80639,"date":"2018-01-26T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//?p=80639"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:56:19","slug":"film-festival-to-feature-ucf-workshops-on-scary-movies-student-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//film-festival-to-feature-ucf-workshops-on-scary-movies-student-films/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639//","title":{"rendered":"Film Festival to Feature UCF Workshops on Scary Movies, Student Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
Why is Florida such a good place to make a scary movie?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/n
That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u2019s one of the topics filmmakers will discuss as part of free workshops sponsored Feb. 8 by UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u2019s College of Arts & Humanities to kick off the Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford. The Feb. 8-11 festival will feature 80 short films from 10 countries along with 15 UCF student exhibition films and two student films in competition./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201cFlorida is a great place to make any kind of film but there is a quirkiness to this state that lends itself to creepy story lines and absurd characters,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201d said Associate Professor of Film Lisa Mills. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201cMany people out there are making scary films and we wanted to use our panel to explore what makes a film scary, and try to figure out why so many scary movies are made in Florida./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/n
The two Education Day workshops for aspiring and veteran filmmakers (/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201cWhat makes a movie scary?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201d at 9 a.m. and /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201cWhy is Florida a good place to make a scary movie?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/u201d at 10 a.m.) will be led by Mills at the Greater Sanford Regional Chamber of Commerce, 400 E. 1st St., in downtown Sanford. The panel is made up of Central Florida film professionals, including four with UCF ties: Zachary Beckler, a UCF film graduate and now lecturer whose horror films have been screened around the world, and Michael Walsh, a professor of cinematography studies whose credits include working on Pirates of the Caribbean II and III, Monster, 2 Fast and 2 Furious, The Waterboy and 70 other feature films and more than 400 TV episodes; Lacey Maloch, a UCF graduate and filmmaker who co-founded SlashHer Productions; and Morgan McKinley, a UCF graduate who works on special effects for SlashHer Productions and has done makeup for Halloween Horror Nights./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/80639/n