{"id":6141,"date":"2019-12-11T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:02:25","slug":"cinemaniacs-premieres-its-newest-project-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2019\/12\/11\/cinemaniacs-premieres-its-newest-project-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinemaniacs Premieres Its Newest Project, \u2018Cancelled\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UMPI\u2019s up-and-coming film club, the \u201cCinemaniacs,\u201d is currently working on its second film, called \u201cCancelled.\u201d Last year, the club created the short film \u201cThe Ninth Reward,\u201d a psychological film that its members presented on University Day<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoung college student Erin is currently in the midst of having a reality TV show filmed about his life as a student. When the film crew and members of the cast are kidnapped and thrown into a room together, there seems to be no escape. With one of them dead, nobody can be trusted. It&#8217;s a matter of life and death, especially since one of them might be a killer,\u201d Tiffany Smith, founder and president of the Cinemaniacs, explained.<\/p>\n<p>The process of creating a film takes a long time. \u201cBy the time we finish filming this semester, we will probably have\u00a0 spent about 60-70 hours filming. Next semester, it will take the same amount of time or more to edit and market the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though the club is only in its second year, it is flourishing. There are 17 club members, six of whom are the cast and two are the crew.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is what keeps this club going. \u201cI\u2019m the president and founder of the Cinemaniacs Filmmaking Club. I wrote the script over the summer for our most current short film in the works. In addition to writing the screenplay and managing the club, I&#8217;m also the main camera operator, producer, co-director and editor for the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal for \u201cCancelled\u201d is the same as it was for \u201cThe Ninth Reward\u201d: to have it ready to be shown by University Day.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it\u2019s several months out, anticipation is already building.\u00a0 Abi Davis, UMPI sophomore, is excited to support her peers.\u00a0 \u201cI look forward to seeing all their hard work in action,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cIt sounds like a really entertaining mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6147\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/12\/Julio-Garcia-Storm-Eirman-and-Sarah-Harris-creating-a-scene-in-the-short-film-_Cancelled_.-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6147\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6147\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/12\/Julio-Garcia-Storm-Eirman-and-Sarah-Harris-creating-a-scene-in-the-short-film-_Cancelled_.--768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/12\/Julio-Garcia-Storm-Eirman-and-Sarah-Harris-creating-a-scene-in-the-short-film-_Cancelled_.--768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/12\/Julio-Garcia-Storm-Eirman-and-Sarah-Harris-creating-a-scene-in-the-short-film-_Cancelled_.--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/12\/Julio-Garcia-Storm-Eirman-and-Sarah-Harris-creating-a-scene-in-the-short-film-_Cancelled_.--1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/12\/Julio-Garcia-Storm-Eirman-and-Sarah-Harris-creating-a-scene-in-the-short-film-_Cancelled_.-.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, Storm Eirman and Sarah Harris creating a scene in the short film &#8220;Cancelled&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMPI\u2019s up-and-coming film club, the \u201cCinemaniacs,\u201d is currently working on its second film, called \u201cCancelled.\u201d Last year, the club created the short film \u201cThe Ninth Reward,\u201d a psychological film that its members presented on University Day \u201cYoung college student Erin is currently in the midst of having a reality TV show filmed about his life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}