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Original movie, To Fly to be screened at Vineyard Church

Movie by Campbellsville University associate professor was shot in 14 days in Grand Canyon on relatively low budget, financed in part by the university

By Rachel Crenshaw, CU student news writer

CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY - Dr. Jason Garrett, associate professor of mass communication at Campbellsville University, has produced, directed and edited along with many other titles and jobs his own original movie "To Fly." The movie will be screened for a test audience at Vineyard Christian Fellowship church, 105 Pleasant DR, Campbellsville, KY, Monday, September 7, 2009, at 7:00pmET/6:00pmET. The event is free and open to the public. Pleasant Drive is just off the New Columbia Highway, on the West Side of the Highway and just north of Cox Interiors.



Dr. Garrett said the purpose of the screening is to have a test audience and to raise money for upcoming costs such as taking the film through the sound design stage and the color balance stage. He said these stages could be fairly costly; therefore, the screening is a chance for people to give a tax-deductible donation if they so desire.

Dr. Garrett said, "The film is about two strangers running from a past that eventually catches up to them." He said the film is meant to capture the idea of redemption in an uncharted way.

He said a majority of the film was shot in 14 days at the Grand Canyon where the cast and crew spent about $2000 in gas, props, food and lodging. Many meals were also provided from the institution's cafeteria by the CU Office of Finance and Administration, Garrett said, to the cast and crew.

The two leading actors are Kayla Gill and Tristan Erwin, who will be present at the screening. Garrett said the auditions for the film were held in April and May and lead to a cast from Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.

Dr. Garrett said the film would have to be accepted into a legitimate film festival before it can have an actual premiere.

Garrett received his PhD in communication from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, in May 2008, after successfully defended his doctoral dissertations in March.

Garrett has been a mass communication professor at CU since 2003. He received his master's degree in communication from Regent University in 2001 and his bachelor of arts in theater arts from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC, in 1998.

Garrett resides in Campbellsville with his wife, Starr, assistant professor of theater and director of the theater program, at CU, and they have one son, August


This story was posted on 2009-09-04 03:17:36
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