Ricardo Ramirez fashions Bonsai from wire in Twisting Memories
(Kings Mountain, NC & Waldwick, NJ – June 26, 2023)
The Real to Reel International Film Festival today announced the program it will screen for North Carolina audiences in August of this year. Twisting Memories, a documentary made in the FA22 Non-Fiction Filmmaking course, is among the roster of official selections. Twisting Memories showcases the work of artist Ricardo Ramirez (a PennWest Edinboro Animation student), who makes miniature trees by combining fabric and beads with colored wire. Ramirez often also incorporates sentimental objects provided by clients who commission him.
The film was produced by Aidan Rauscher and directed by KT Reihner in collaboration with Colby Jester and Camri Cochran.
The film has also been recognized by the Student World Impact Film Festival as a quarter-finalist in its Best Short film category. A win with SWIFF constitutes an important networking connection, since the festival is a distribution partner of Amazon Prime.
A pair of other Edinboro student films were also recognized by SWIFF. Drunk History, directed by Jaylin Wyatt in the FA22 offering of Narrative Filmmaking, is a Best Short semi-finalist. Ryan Hess’s extra-curricular project Time is a finalist in the Best Super Short
Other Edinboro SWIFF winners are Drunk History, a Best Short semi-finalist directed by Jaylin Wyatt and completed in the FA22 offering of the Narrative Filmmaking course, and Time, an extra-curricular project directed by Ryan Hess that was named a finalist for Best Super Short.
Edinboro Philm entries were selected from nearly 14,000 submissions representing 120 countries.