Members of the Laguna Woods Video Club once again celebrated their own version of Hollywood’s Oscars, the Goldies, awarded to the best videos club members produced in the previous year.
For the 13th year, attendees of the recent festivities watched 10 four-minute video entries before getting down to the business of voting for their top three favorites.
As the gleaming Goldies statuettes stood sentry among a bevy of door prizes, Video Club Vice President Tom Nash announced the three winners.
First prize went to Nancy Klann-Moren for her video “The Clock of Life.” Katharine Holland won second prize for “Cupid’s Curtain Call,” and Marsha Berman took third for her travelog, “Porto and the Douro River Valley.”
The Goldies were so named to honor the Golden Rain Foundation for providing facilities for the Village’s clubs and for its residents enjoying their golden years, as golden oldies.
While all 10 entries were nothing short of engaging, voters took into consideration technical aspects such as the quality of the videography, the audio, editing and special effects. What also carried weight were a video’s emotional impact, implied meaningfulness and just plain enjoyability.
Klann-Moren’s winning video is a trailer for her novel, “The Clock of Life.” Set in fictional Hadlee, Mississippi, and filmed in Northern California, the story is about an interracial friendship between two young boys, Jason Lee and Sampson Johnson, and its implied social ramifications. Klann-Moren illustrates her point with clips from a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, and references to activist Rosa Parks.
The story then segues into Jason Lee finding his dead father’s diary chronicling his participation in civil rights marches and his service in Vietnam. The dad’s brother, also a Vietnam veteran, lives with Jason and his mother as the wacky uncle suffering from the effects of a head wound. It is his phrase “the clock of life is always ticking toward the funeral…
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