Jay Rocks

Exciting news! Jay's short film, "Sasquatches," won top honors at the 1st Annual Rochester Independent Film Festival last night! And Jay won the award for "Best Male Performance" for playing the character of team leader Bergen Jenklovosky. (By the way, he thinks this is hilarious -- winning an acting award for, umm, Best Male PERFORMER, if you know what I mean.)

Jay had to go down to the stage and accept his awards after the screening and everything -- so fun! In addition to the awards themselves, he also took home $300 in winnings. And a box full of cookies. (Really. They had lots o' cookies left after the closing reception.)

The festival featured 10 films from area filmmakers. Some were good, some not so good. You can see for yourself, if you're interested. All films, including Jay's big winner, will be available for viewing on www.Rochester411.com later this week. We'll throw a post up when they're live.