Armand Petri
Adjunct Lecturer Armand Petri won a bronze award for best music score for the independent film “Frenzy Moon.”
But his Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival honor is not SUNY Fredonia’s only connection to the Gregory Lamberson horror flick. A colleague of Mr. Petri’s in the Department of Applied Professional Studies, Lecturer Edward Croft, assisted Petri in composing music.
Also, students enrolled in MUSB 351: Digital Marketing for Music Industry assembled a marketing package to promote the upcoming screening – just ahead of Halloween – of “Frenzy Moon” at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center. It’ll be shown on Friday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m.
As part of the marketing push, Ryan Davis, Merrik Follett, Vanessa Lotito, Kaiden Ruiz and Benjamin Specland created videos that portrayed a werewolf attempting to reach the 1891 Fredonia Opera House.
“They're silly videos meant to engage students at Fredonia and hopefully get them to go see the screening of ‘Frenzy Moon,’” said Bianca Wales, a junior Music Industry major from Jamesville, NY. They’re to be posted on TikTok and Instagram.
Students also created a flyer and poster as part of the marketing boost.
Two alumni — Donovan Gale (‘21) and Jay Gleason (‘22) — served on the film crew.
Petri and director/writer Lamberson will attend the screening and participate in a question-and-answer session after the film is shown.
“Frenzy Moon” tells the story of six college graduate students and a mysterious hunter who spend a terrifying night battling werewolves in a remote cabin. The film, which won a Gold award at the Pittsburgh festival, was photographed in Clarence, NY, and has been screened at film festivals ahead of its digital release.
