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Wormtooth Nation Wins Top Award at Film Festival
Wormtooth Nation, a feature film by MUM students Geoff Boothby and Cullen Thomas that was created as their senior project, has won three top awards from the Iowa Motion Pictures Association.
The awards — often called the “Iowa Oscars” — are for screenplay, direction, and original music score.
The film also received three Awards of Achievement for being nominated in the entertainment, lighting design, and editing categories.
Previously, the film won the Gold Eddy in the Student Long-Form category at the 2009 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival.
The film, which was originally released serially online, also received two nominations for Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
Wormtooth Nation is a 90-minute film that tells the story of people living in an underground city, searching for the surface but continually losing their memories. It features a large and talented cast, authentic locations suited to the “steampunk’” genre, an intriguing plot, and a memorable score.
The Webby Awards receive over 10,000 entries in over 100 categories, and the entries go through with two levels of judging to be nominated, with only five entries nominated in each category.
The two filmmakers are now employed by DLF.tv, a new website from the David Lynch Foundation.
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