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.”
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In this June 15, 2011, photo, filmmaker Michael Bay poses for a portrait at Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. Bay directed the film, âTransformers: Dark of the Moon.â He filmed portions of the several âTransformersâ movies in Detroit.
LANSING On Dec. 3, two bills were introduced in the House that, if passed, would revive a taxpayer-funded film income-tax credit for films produced bearing a “Filmed in Michigan logo.” The Center Square reported the bills on Dec. 8.
The bills, HBs 6504 and 6506, were introduced by Democrat Rep. Robert Wittenberg, 27th House District, which includes Berkley, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge and Royal Oak Township.