A day before his 22nd birthday, Matthew Kiel got an early and unexpected birthday present — a nomination for his stop-motion movie in the 40th annual Student Academy Awards. But as it turns out, the 2009 Chestatee High School graduate was too busy to celebrate his semifinalist honor. “My friend texted me that we got it,” he said in a phone interview from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Chestatee grad gets Student Academy Award nod