A convertible, a house in the hills and a backstage pass to the Oscars are among the things Radu Ion has acquired since winning in the trailer category in the first Key Art Awards Student Scholarship Competition last year. He also has been busy working at trailer firms Ant Farm and Red Car since graduating from American Film Institute last year. "When I won (the Key Art Award), the phones started ringing like crazy," Ion said. "Most of the people I went to school with are working in the business now in some way. But this award really gave me a boost." Ion won first prize for his student trailer for Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. The piece attracted attention from several trailer houses, many of which had representatives at the awards show where his work was screened. Granted, his convertible is a secondhand Saab, and he's still working his way up in the business. But Ion -- a native of the Netherlands who worked professionally in Europe for a couple of years before enrolling at AFI -- has still come a long way from his student days, when he shared a two-bedroom Silverlake, Calif., flat and drove an old Pontiac Bonneville.
- 5/22/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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