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Mott Community College: MCC Student Earns Top Honors At 2021 NATAS-MI Awards
Recent Mott Community College (MCC) Media Arts & Entertainment alumnus Markeice Patrick won a National Academy of Television Arts & Scie ...
Dawn Hibbard
May 4th, 2021
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Recent Mott Community College (MCC) Media Arts & Entertainment alumnus Markeice Patrick won a National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Michigan (NATAS-MI) Student Production Award for Best Director April 25 for his Non-Fiction video titled Pandemic Diaries: Parenthood.
“This is an amazing achievement as Markeice completed this film last spring while campus was shut down during the pandemic, and also while serving full-time in the National Guard during the crisis,” said Dr. David Rembiesa, Media Arts Program Coordinator.
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Additionally, MAET student Jonathan Eaton, of Flushing, was nominated for Best Commercial Award for a production he made in his first semester at MCC. He also faced the challenge of finishing his project during the college’s tele work and tele learning due to COVID-19.
Kimberly Kelling, of Burton, won a Dr. Lynne Boyle/John Schimpf Scholarship. Kelling is interested in freelance video and photography work, and will continue her education at UM-Flint.
Pandemic Diaries: Parenthood, is a short form documentary style film that Patrick said he struggled to finish, having been called to COVID Response with the National Guard from April to September in 2020, and then again to Washington D.C. on Jan. 28. He served with the 156 Expeditionary Signal Battalion in Washington D.C., providing communications and other support to local and federal civil authorities. “If it wasn’t for my friends Charles Dudley and Zackary Atkinson I wouldn’t have gotten this film project done at all,” he said.
Patrick discovered his passion for filmmaking in MCC’s Media Arts and Entertainment Technology degree program. “I jumped into the media arts program because I thought it was cool,” he said. “I stayed because of the instructors and the experiences.”
Originally from Pontiac, Patrick moved to Flint to be closer to school. He is currently completing a bachelor’s degree at Wayne State University. “I want to become a documentary filmmaker or a producer – or both!” he said. “I like how you can follow a person’s story and share it with the world in a raw and unfiltered manner.”
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