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Take-2 Film Festival is proud to announce Student Oscar Winner Laura Waters Hinson as an adjudicator for the Take-2 Film Festival. Laura’s Documentary “As those we forgive” won an award at the 35th Student Academy Awards this year.

“We are absolutely thrilled at the news that Laura has agreed to be an adjudicator” Said Jerry Fitzgerald, adding that “We had come across Laura’s Documentary, and thought that this is an opportunity that we had to follow up on. We are pinching ourselves at the appointment.”

Speaking to T2FF Laura had this to say:
“I am honored to be a part of the Take-2 festival and am eager to see the work of student filmmakers from around the world.”

Laura will adjudicate the Documentary category at this year’s festival alongside IT Tralee’s own, Donnacha Toomey, Ashley Gaskin, Marty Boylan and Lisa Mcgelligot. Filmmaker and producer Patrick O Neil and writer Neil Flynn will also be among the adjudicating list. The adjudication could not be in better hands for the upcoming Take-2 Student International Film Festival.

More On Laura Waters Hinson

Laura Waters Hinson is a filmmaker and photographer based in the
Washington, DC area. She is president of Image Bearer Pictures and has a
master of fine arts in film from American University. Recently, Laura served
on the production team of 14 Women, an acclaimed documentary film on
the lives of the 14 female U.S. senators. Since graduating from Furman
University in 2001, Laura has worked as a development coordinator for the
Discovery Health Channel, as a research assistant for MSNBC host Chris
Matthews, and as a production assistant at Guggenheim Productions. Laura also spends her
time as a freelance photographer and is currently forming a non-profit to promote
reconciliation projects in Rwanda.