Student Upstart Films can now be called “the award winning” Student Upstart Films. That’s right, our PSA (starring America’s Next Top Model Mike Ostrov) won FIRST place in the SIFE/MPAA contest.
Upstart gets a 50% share of the winnings ($3000) and the PSA will air on MTVu so students at student unions all around the country can watch it with the volume turned off and ignore it.
Congratulations everyone who worked on it! Congratulations Upstart Films!
It’s vindicating to learn that all those hour and a half long meetings actually materialized into something tangible.
Out popped a dozen people in dark windbreakers identifying them as feds -- agents from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some raced to the loading docks. Others hurried through the front door. All were armed.
Judging by the comments on the YouTube page, maybe they should have been cupcakes.