Five Students' Artwork Chosen as 'Best in Show'

Five Glen Cove High School students were recognized as "Best in Show" last month for pieces they submitted at the 2012 Long Island Media Arts Show at Five Towns College on March 22.

Mauro Carignano and Joseph Calamusa created a stop-motion photography film of themselves in a "gravity-defying...humerous battle," according to photography teacher Melissa Manzione.

The film will head to the Suffolk County Film Commission where it will compete with approximately a dozen films to be chosen for showing at the annual First Exposure student film festival in May.

Also honored at the Media Arts Show were Alyssa Ayala, Elsie Goodman and Dakota Herman, students in Manzione's advanced photography class.

Each submitted an "expressive portrait" which was judged by a group of college professors, high school teachers, members of Long Island camera clubs and photography students of NYU.