(Laguna Beach, CA and Cookeville, TN – January 15, 2021)
A Tennessee PBS affiliate recognized Edinboro Film & Video student Kain Winiecke with a bronze award in WCTE’s Student Film Festival. Winiecke’s short documentary, Good Curling, won third prize in the festival’s non-fiction category. The honor comes in tandem with a second place win at the My Hero International Festival in Laguna Beach, California.
Good Curling uses a profile of the French Creek Curling Club to teach viewers basics of the sport. Winiecke followed curlers to the Meadville (PA) Area Recreation Complex where the sport’s signature good manners and etiquette offer a welcome respite from a year of unsettling events and isolation.
Winiecke shot and edited the film in partial fulfillment of requirements for Professor Brian Fuller’s Film & Video Production II. Since Fuller’s arrival at Edinboro in 2018, the course’s content has centered on the history and creation of non-fiction films. Good Curling joins documentaries Roll Out (about roller derby skates) and Detecting Deception (about lie detectors) in a list of the course’s student-produced films which have gone on to win festival accolades.