Locust Valley High School students Raffaele Giannattasio, Justin Kwok and Dean Wolfe took home the honors for Best Use of Character in their project ‘Chronicle of a Boy Displaced’ from the Long Island 72-Hour Film Festival at Five Towns College in October.
The three filmmakers received prompts requiring them to utilize a prop, a genre, a character name and a line of dialogue from the competition. The boys quickly got to work, spending the weekend writing, shooting and editing the film over a weekend.
The mockumentary follows Brody Bruce, played by Giannattasio, who is dropped into a separate dimension where he meets an alternate version of his sister, played by classmate Laura Warner. Wolfe served as director, while Giannattasio and Kwok worked as cinematographer and editor, respectively. The three boys, working as Piejinks Productions, are a mainstay of the Locust Valley High School Film Festival.