Slow Dancin’ Down the Aisles of the Quickcheck

In May 1999, Thomas was notified that his film Slow Dancin’ Down the Aisles of the Quickcheck was a finalist for the student Academy Award. He would find out in June if he’d won first, second, or third place. But the journey from idea to the Academy ceremony in June was a long one. In 1998, when Thomas wrote the first draft of Slow Dancin’, he did not have a story. Fifteen rewrites later, he’d found his story and a whole lot of rich significant stuff in the process. Slow Dancin’ Down the Aisles of the Quickcheck won First Place in the Student Narrative category at the 1998 Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival. Since Thomas finished Slow Dancin’ and received his Masters from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, he became the founder of The Compassion Project, a multi-media production company, and director of the award-winning, feature-length documentary, A Prayer for Compassion.