Latest on #SLUT as August winds to a close
#SLUT took Audience Favorite honors at this year’s Fort Myers Film Festival. Exploring the central themes of cyberbullying, slut shaming and sexual predation, the film resonated with the Millennial/Gen X cineastes who saw the film. That’s not surprising when you discover that the film’s writer is just 19 and was forced to put up with bullying first hand as a high school junior and senior.
#SLUT is the 2019 NYLA International Film Festival (LA) Best Student Film winner, 2019 Papaya Films Bursary winner, and the D Lacy Jr. Social Justice Award winner at the 2018 Studio City Int’l Film Festival. In addition, #SLUT was a Best Drama nominee at the 19th Annual FirstGlance Film Festival in Los Angeles and semi-finalist in the Content Creators of Atlanta Awards. Sophia 
individually received nominations for Breakout Performance and Best Young Actor at FirstGlance, with Director Jenna Kanell garnering a Best Director Award at the 15 Minutes of Fame Film Festival in Cocoa Beach earlier this year. It also screened August 1 at the Cobb International Film Festival.
But #SLUT is not done. It will be screening again on Saturday, August 17 during the 4:15-5:45 p.m. time slot at the Southern Shorts Awards in Roswell, Georgia. This Top 100 Best Reviewed Festival is a quarterly competition for films under 30 minutes that is held in an actual movie theater and scored by three judges, and #SLUT has garnered 
a number of nominations:
- Sophia Watson for Best Actress;
- Jenna Kanell for Best Director;
- Azariah Oldacre for Best Cinematography;
- Vivian Camille Zingleman for Best Editor; and
- Andrés Feliciano for Best Music.
July 27, 2019; August 12, 2019.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.