{"id":10949,"date":"2025-03-07T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:48:42","slug":"mphs-uil-film-honored-at-state-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-uil-film-honored-at-state-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS UIL Film Honored at State Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A group of Mount Pleasant High School students made school history again on Thursday, February 27 when they were the first-ever attendees from MPHS at the UIL State Film Festival. The group attended session II of the film festival and were able to watch all of the finalists in the 5A and 6A narrative and traditional animation categories. Mount Pleasant\u2019s filmmakers received UIL State Finalist medals for their historic first entry into the event.<\/h3>\n<h3>The state finalist film, Dawn of the Night Chapter One-The Duel at Dawn, is a spaghetti western style story shot entirely on an iPhone. It was written and directed by Samuel Chappell with the story by Chappell and Frankie Rodriguez. The MPHS UIL Film team includes seniors Samuel Chappell, David Cumpian, Tanner Marshall, Jesus Moreno, Frankie Rodriguez, Christopher Sorto, and junior Judson Colley, with advisor, Gina Crouch. The films featured \u201cextras\u201d Evan Cota, Eli Hernandez, Amir Martinez, Alejandro Nino, Cristian Perez Fernando, and Luke Thurman.<\/h3>\n<h3>All three UIL Films will be available for viewing soon on the Mount Pleasant ISD website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/uil-state-finalist-film-dawn-of-the-night-watch-now\/\"><strong>www.mpisd.net<\/strong><\/a> and on all MPISD social media sites.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photo:<\/h3>\n<h3>MPHS UIL Film team at the state film festival<\/h3>\n<h3>(L to R) Advisor Gina Crouch, Jesus Moreno, Christopher Sorto, Tanner Marshall, Sam Chappell, Luke Thurman, Frankie Rodriguez, Evan Cota, David Cumpian, Alejandro Nino, Judson Colley<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Mount Pleasant High School students made school history again on Thursday, February 27 when they were the first-ever attendees from MPHS at the UIL State Film Festival. The group attended session II of the film festival and were able to watch all of the finalists in the 5A and 6A narrative and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}