Student directors in Mount Carmel School\u2019s filmmaking class had the chance to showcase their work on the big screen this past week when the school held a film festival at Regal Cinemas this past week. The festival featured three films, directed by Keona Camacho, Poima Tarkong, and Justin Ocampo. Over 200 students were bused over to the theaters to watch the three films, as well as a Knightly News segment and a few other student films from the school\u2019s film archives.<\/p>\n
\u2018Why Me\u2019 directed by Keona Camacho<\/strong><\/p>\n Camacho\u2019s film, \u201cWhy Me,\u201d takes the audience into the dreams of a boy, played by Markel Toves, who is bullied on a daily basis. While he tends to find escape in his dreams, the film chronicles one dream that goes horribly wrong, leading the lead character to ask, \u201cWhy me?\u201d<\/p>\n Camacho took great pains to ensure the film achieved her vision of combatting bullying. And despite several filmmaking challenges along the way, she was happy with how her film and all the films turned out. \u201cI really liked all the films, especially from my filmmaking classmates.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018The Walk\u2019 directed by Poima Tarkong<\/strong><\/p>\n Tarkong\u2019s film, \u201cThe Walk,\u201d at first seems like a film about a stalker, played by Shannon Sasamoto, who follows a boy, played by Sophomore Don Castro. However, a plot twist towards the end of the film changes the whole perspective on the situation. \u2018Prank\u2019 directed by Justin Ocampo<\/strong><\/p>\n Ocampo\u2019s \u201cPrank\u201d throws a comic twist on a classic prank by elevating the ensuing conflict to an epic chase as the lead character, played by Lance Deleon Guerrero, pursues the film\u2019s prankster, played by William Blake Deleon Guerrero.<\/p>\n While he faced his share of filmmaking challenges, Ocampo was very pleased with the final product. \u201cI was so sucked into the film, that I barely noticed how the audience reacted to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Student directors in Mount Carmel School\u2019s filmmaking class had the chance to showcase their work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[668,10681,1181,10682],"class_list":["post-224464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-baby","tag-justin-ocampo","tag-mcs","tag-poima-tarkong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhile Tarkong is a seasoned filmmaker who has made other student films in the past, she still found the process difficult. But that difficulty faded when the audience started laughing at the film. She likened it to creating life. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like giving a baby, it hurts, but once the baby comes out, everyone loves it.\u201d<\/p>\n