Nick Lusardi
ALPENA — For the second year in a row, Nick Lusardi has been on the winning team in the Thunder bay International Film Festival Student Film Competition. But this year, he won both first and second place with his individual submissions, “Mermaids Specifically” and “Kitchen Sink.”
Lusardi’s films take a creative approach to the theme #FreshWaterIs, which was the prompt for each film entry.
“I was sort of experimenting,” said Lusardi, 15. “I really wanted to enter again, and do something a little bit bigger and better than what I did last year. So I was really trying to explore the concept in a creative way. Because I knew there’d be lots of people who thought of ‘FreshWaterIs’ in a very literal way and so I wanted to try to think of it in more of a creative fashion.”