Congrats!
MFA Film alumni Zachary Calhoun (CO’25), Jesse Scales (CO’25), and Andrew Sloth (CO’25), and current students Delaire Gackle (CO’26) and Eric Walters (CO’26) won Best 48-Hour Film at the 29th Annual Magnolia Independent Film Festival this February.
The Magnolia Independent Film Festival is Mississippi’s first and longest-running film festival. Teams of filmmakers were challenged with randomly-assigned prompts for their annual 48 hour Film Competition.The team of MFA Film students & alums banded together with their assigned filmmaking prompts, and created their short film Garry the Marshmallow, which won The Mag’s 48-Hour Film Competition and was exhibited alongside other categories at the festival’s screenings last month.
See The Mag’s winners announcement featuring Garry the Marshmallow on Instagram, and check out details on the film below:
Logline: Two brothers just can’t get along, so their mother comes up with a plan… a solid yet soft, sugary, and gelatin plan.
Randomly Assigned Prompts:
- Genre: Family Film
- Prop: Marshmallow
- Dialogue: “Wait did that really just happen?”
- Character: Sherman or Shirley Kane
Crew:
Written by: Zachary Calhoun, Andrew Sloth, Jesse Scales
Directed by: Zachary Calhoun
Director of Photography: Eric Walters
1st AC: Delaire Gackle
Sound: Jack Perrott
Script Supervisor: Savannah Treu
Props: Andrew Bassett
Editor: Delaire Gackle
Composer: Jack Perrott
Title Card by: Caitlin Ruffed
Cast:
- “Vernon” – Jesse Scales
- “Sherman” – Andrew Sloth
Photos courtesy of Zachary Calhoun