Don’t want to wait another year until the next Academy Awards ?
Posted on: March 9, 2010
Don’t worry, another great cinematic event is coming up. On March 20th the second edition of the CUNY Film Festival at the Macaulay Honors College will be held.
In 2008, Hunter film student Daniel Cohen had made a short movie and planned to show it at a CUNY Film Festival, when he realized that the event didn’t exist. Supported by HBO and the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, he thus created the CUFF in order to « foster a sense of community and promote cross-campus projects ».
The CUNY Film Festival is a great opportunity for film students not only to share their passion with other campuses, but also to step a foot in the cinematic industry. This week, three of last year’s awarded films are going to be broadcasted on Thirteen.
« Our sponsors have been very generous to us, says Dilber Shatursun, the Festival’s representative at City College. Guests speakers representatives, who support the public system, will attend the ceremony. »
Around eighty students of the seven City University Colleges have already submitted their films for the 2010 edition. Miles Trahan, a Hunter college student, is one of them. « I see every festival as an opportunity to get my work seen, he said. Really all I want at this point is to get my films before a fresh audience and gauge reactions. » Miles Trahan submitted In Dreams, a short movie that immerses us in the dark universe of the storyteller’s imagination, where everything becomes possible. « I had made other movies before, but I chose to submit this one because it was recently made within the CUNY Hunter film program. »
To find out whether this film or others will be successful at the Festival, rendez-vous on March 20th !
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