University of Central Florida alumna Laura Alexandra Ramos was awarded the \u201cBest Actress\u201d title at the annual Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival last week.<\/p>\n
Ramos, who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in cinema studies from UCF in 2009, received the award for her lead role in the comic drama \u201cNerve.\u201d The film is about a young man who battles social anxiety and looks to a Ramos\u2019 character, a psychology student, for help.<\/p>\n
More than 50 films were shown at the festival, which aims to support and promote independent cinema in Los Angeles by encouraging filmmakers with unique visions to create low-budget films.<\/p>\n
Ramos lives in Los Angeles but is from New Port Richey, Fla. Her next project is a biopic about baseball legend Roberto Clemente.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Central Florida alumna Laura Alexandra Ramos was awarded the \u201cBest Actress\u201d title at the annual Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival last week. Ramos, who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in cinema studies from UCF in 2009, received the award for her lead role in the comic drama \u201cNerve.\u201d The film is about a young man who battles social anxiety…","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17023,1690],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-31349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities","tag-film"],"yoast_head":"\n