TCT Student's Film Goes International

Dave Souza films his documentary

When Dave Souza, a Telecommunications Technology student, was told the requirements for his associate degree final project, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. "I had done a short interview with tattoo artist Phil Girard in an earlier quarter and I really wanted to do a documentary on tattooing." Phil gave Dave total access to his tattoo studio, and Dave went beyond that and spoke to several generations of people about their feelings on tattoos.

About the time Dave finished the documentary, he saw that the Rhode Island International Film Festival was accepting nominations for films. Dave had volunteered at the event in 2000 and he felt his film might be good enough to be shown at this year's festival. He was right. Dave's documentary "Sin on Skin" was not only accepted but it was nominated for one of the festival awards.

(Editor's note: At the time of publication, the festival had not taken place. Therefore, it was not known if the film won an award.)

His film was scheduled for one of the prime spots of the festival - Sunday evening, August 12th, at the List Theater in Providence. Dave says it has been a real thrill and he wants to thank everyone involved in making the film a reality.

Cindy Pankiewicz, NEIT Catalog Librarian, sent the following note to Tech News.

In the Spring issue of Tech News is a picture of the 1949 NEIT plastics graduating class. The man in the front row, far left, is my uncle, Edward Lemek, my mother's brother. He told me he came to NEIT for the plastics program on the GI Bill, but he never showed me any pictures. I thought the man in the photo was familiar, and I showed it to my mother. My aunt visited and spotted her brother Eddie right away. Uncle Eddie told me he car pooled with the man in the front row, far right. My uncle is going to be 87 in August, and he and his wife are still living in West Warwick. He worked as a paint supervisor at the Howard Medical Institution in Cranston for many, many years, and retired from there. As they say, only in Rhode Island!