College student film captures childhood with help of local actors
The Chester Telegraph | May 29, 2013 | Comments 0
Nine children and one adult from Chester are featured in a new, 23-minute film made by a crew of Keene State College seniors. The film, Childhood, I Love You, was screened Friday evening to a group of actors and their families at Green Mountain Union High. Click on any photo below to launch the gallery.
Paige Carusello, the producer and casting director, said the film was shot in Chester, Keene and Walpole during the winter months as a senior capstone project.
It consists of five short vignettes in which the filmmakers “remember and explore what it means to be a child, to love and to believe one, during a period when we begin learning about ourselves for the first time,” Carusello wrote in an email. The film takes a journey into the dreams and imaginations of five characters: Grace, Ella, Natalya, Cassandra and Ava.
The cast from Chester includes children Avery Prescott, Tristan Prescott, Eliza Burbela, Kyra Burbela, Bella Grizscenkow, Cassia Grizscenkow, Nadya Grizscenkow, Johnny Sawyer, Forest Garvin and Mitchell Rounds, and parent Margaret Grizscenkow. You can find a copy of Childhood, I Love You at the Whiting Library, 117 Main St. in Chester.
The Keene State filmmakers of ‘Childhood, I Love You’ speak with audience members during the film’s screening on Friday night at GMUHS. From left, Marcy Webster, the writer/director; producer and casting director Paige Carusello; Caterina Masia, writer/director/producer; writer, director and editor Josh Lapierre; cinematographer Kevin Weed and Cam McMaster, cinematographer/titles. Two of the crew were not in attendance: Sasha Fukuda and Seth Clason. /Photos by Phillisa Prescott
Actors and filmmakers pose for a photograph. In the back row, from left are Marcy Webster, Josh Lapierre, Kevin Weed and Cam McMaster; middle row: Nadya Grizscenkow, Avery Prescott, Caterina Masia, Paige Carusello. And front row, from left: Johnny Sawyer, Bella Grizscenkow, Eliza Burbela, Kyra Burbela, Cassia Grizscenkow and Tristan Prescott. Not pictured are Forest Garvin and Mitchell Rounds.
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