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Posted by SMAD November 1, 2006

This year's 19th Annual Virginia Film Festival featured a handful of JMU's SMAD students in the third installment of the Volvo Adrenaline Film Project. Director Nicholas Lazo, Producer Lauren Meyer and Camera Operator Nathan Burns were assigned their genre, prop, and line of dialogue Wednesday night and given 72 hours to write, cast, shoot, edit, and screen a short film. Their action-adventure short featured a cast and crew of JMU students and revolved around their prop--a bottle of Miracle Whip.

Each phase of production, from script to screening, invloved a green-lighting process in which the project's Executive Producers, Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman, advised and approved all ten team's efforts. Lazo, Meyer and Burns received an Honorable Mention for their short "The Thrill of the Taste" at Sunday's screening.

Ben Haslup, who graduated from SMAD last year, won the the two first-place awards given out this year at the Festival.