Bubblegum Smackers, a short film by UCF student Lindsay Garvin, won the “E for Everyone” category at last weekend’s Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford.
The 17-minute film noir version of a 1940s detective caper features child actors wearing trench coats and ordering their drinks in a juice bar.
Garvin, of Orlando, said her studies at UCF helped her secure a job in Miami as a TV production assistant.
Lisa Mills, an assistant professor of film, served as a judge at the second year of the short-film event, which showed 70 movies in three days.
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