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Meet a Leader
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William Ford-Conway
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| William Ford-Conway, a delegate to the 2008 Tavis Smiley Foundation’s Leadership Institute. |
Institute alum and aspiring filmmaker wins contest.
William Ford-Conway, a delegate to the 2008 Tavis Smiley Foundation’s Leadership Institute, was selected as the first prize winner in the Sound Off Film Festival sponsored by Montgomery County Community College’s Communicating Arts Production Group.
William, 17, of Wyncote, PA, was the only high school student to enter the competition.
The filmmakers were challenged to create a three-minute video in five days using only the silent film clips provided. The videos had to present a coherent story, supported by appropriate sound effects. Click here for the rest of the story.
In an interview with the Courier Times newspaper, William said he has already received nearly 40 festival awards. His earliest, at the age of 10, was in the Best Young Filmmaker category for a short called “Grades Rule,” an Alice-in-Wonderland-type film in which the characters, representing different school subjects, explored where good grades come from. A more recent project — an artistic documentary called “Other” — was selected for viewing in the Showing Room at Sundance Resort Youth Film Festival.
What are his plans for the future?
“I’m hoping to get into UCLA, USC (the University of Southern California) or FSU (Florida State University’s Film School in Tallahassee),” he told the newspaper.
In August, he won a coveted spot in a weeklong student workshop at UCLA where he studied how effective leadership builds communities under Tavis Smiley and noted author and expert on racial justice Dr. Cornel West.
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