The following is a summary (by Edna Frenchwood) of an event held by Chichi Movies for the outstanding contributions of Jacob Orth, Elena Medrano, and others to a film project by the Mid-Michigan Youth Media Initiative.
To view the film project starring Jacob and Elena, please see: https://youtu.be/AnTE4oHa9gI
Many thanks to Edna Frenchwood and all of the supporters of the Mid-MichiganYouth Media Initiative for helping to provide students with opportunities to work on great film/video productions!
For more information regarding Chichi Movies, please see: https://chichimovies.com/
The 'Star' Award
Given to outstanding students who go above and beyond to perform their best on set! Elena (Medrano) was the first to answer to the call for the 'Strangers Game' by the A-Team of Bonnie Sumbler's LCC Media Class. She played the lead female role. Jacob took on the lead role on the day of, after our lead cast cancelled! Congrats to Elena Medrano and Jacob Orth of the Michigan/DeWitt Creativity Groups/Dewitt High School!
Thank you to everyone who made this event possible. Special thanks to our sponsors who allowed us to give away, a night's stay at the Staybridge Suites Okemos, MI (Won by the Orth Family). A Kean's Mason basket (Won by the Medrano family), free ballroom dance lessons from the Center for Social Dance (Won by the Hedlunds), Movies (Won by Josiah Frenchwood) and a Chalis bracelet from H&H Jewelry (Won by Elena Medrano).
We took great shots from Hoffman Photography on the red carpet, we had great food from Ozzy's Kabob, and great words from our amazing guest speakers Kellie Green Johnson and Mark Lewis.
Thank you Pastor Sam for the opening prayer, thank you MC Angel Brooke.
Thank you to Matthew Lewis, The Michigan/DeWitt Creativity Groups, The center for social dance Coble studio, Tx The wow flower project, LA, Lansing public media, LCC media class and all the families and friends of Elena Medrano & Jacob Orth.
A special thank you to all the parents who work hard to raise amazing children!
A big Shout out to my sons Chase Cooley and Josiah Frenchwood.