It looks like Full Sail Productions is proud of one instructor there. Jose Casella is an instructor at the school and apparently mad a good horror film. His feature “Delivery” has won the best Florida Horror Film at the Screamfest Convention and film Festival this year. Along with that award, another instructor took home a best actor award….looks like the tuition might be raised there! Check out the synopsis for Delivery below and the full press release at the more link.
Synopsis:
DELIVERY is the story of Montgomery Goth (Matt Nelson) is a gentle loner with a traumatic past, trying to put the pieces of his life back together while working as a delivery boy for a local pizza restaurant. He has no friends, no life and no prospects for the future, until one day he meets Bibi (Tara Cardinal), and life seems to finally change for the better. But a series of events will test Montgomery’s sanity and awaken the demons inside of him, unleashing a murderous rampage that ill keep everyone from ordering take out for a very long, long time.
Full Sail Real World Education is proud to announce that instructor, Jose Casella, was recently awarded “Best Florida Horror Film” at the 2006 Screamfest Horror Convention for his film, Delivery. Matt Nelson, also an instructor, took home an additional prize for Delivery winning “Best Actor.”
The Convention was held in October at the Wyndham Orlando Resort. Cassella served as director and many other Full Sail instructors took part, as well as nearly 100 Full Sail students including film student, Kelly Moore, who edited Delivery in its entirety. Delivery was shot on a low budget with only two months of production. Cassella describes the piece as a suspenseful horror movie about a “gentle loner with a traumatic past, trying to put his life back together while working as a [pizza delivery boy. However, a series of events test his sanity and unleash a murderous rampage.”
The film received a lot of attention from vendors such as Blockbuster, Netflix, and Movie Stop, who have each offered their promotional support, and Polychrome Pictures, a division of Warner Home Video, has picked up the film for release next February. Cassella finished his Film education at Full Sail in 1990. After graduation, he worked with a large variety of independent films, music videos and commercials.
In addition, Cassella is the co-founder of KSFilms, an independent film company responsible for the Full Sail-made film Wish, which also won a Film Slam competition at the downtown Orlando dMac. “The cast consists of up-and-coming actors but our main lead Matt Nelson, is actually a professional assistant director who looked the part perfectly,” said Casella. “We also crewed Delivery with our Full Sail faculty and students and I could not be more proud of the work we did together.
It became the little movie that could!” Since 1979, Full Sail Real World Education, a college outside of Orlando, FL, has been an innovative educational leader for those pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. With over 23,000 alumni, graduate credits include work on Oscar and GRAMMY-winning projects, best-selling video games, and the #1 grossing U.S. concert tour five out of the last five years.
Full Sail’s 91-acre campus proudly welcomes over 5,000 students from all 50 states and 37 countries worldwide. Currently, Full Sail offers degrees in the following disciplines: Computer Animation, Digital Arts & Design, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Development, Recording Arts, and Show Production & Touring. Students experience a “real world” education, with a professional class structure of 8-12 hours per day, and a 24-hour round the clock schedule which earned Full Sail the “Most Innovative Program” Award by the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges.
Full Sail has also been named one of the top three entertainment media colleges by Shift Magazine alongside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 1) and New York University (No. 2); Electronic Gaming Monthly named Full Sail one of the Top Five Game Degree Programs in the world; Rolling Stone Magazine recently named Full Sail one of the “Best Music Programs” in the country, in addition to one of the “Best Music Business Departments” in the Schools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide, and UNleashed Magazine has named Full Sail one of the Best Film Programs in the country.
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