Posts Tagged ‘student films’
Columbia film student wins Student Academy Award
Next stop: Hollywood? Columbia’s own Shawn Wines, SoA ’12, was recently selected as a winner in the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Wines, along with 11 other winners from nine universities across the country, will head to L.A. next week to mix and mingle with people in the film business and attend the awards ceremony on June 11th at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Spectrum sat down with Wines and discussed his winning film, the Student Academy Awards and his plans for the future. Full interview and promo still from “High Maintenance” after the jump. More »
CUFP will hold its annual showcase of films tomorrow
As most film majors will be quick to tell you—and any friend they’ve unwittingly roped in, even quicker—making a movie is hard: taxing, time-consuming, mechanically complex, and often logistically impossible. Still, after the blood, sweat, and tears of even the most draining shooting weekend—then the all-night edit sessions and delightful hair-tearing dilemmas—once the files are exported, the final cut locked, you’re left with some pretty incredible student product, directed, crewed, even acted by your classmates. Columbia Undergraduate Film Productions, an organization that facilitates a majority of campus filmmaking, will host its annual spring festival at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Dodge Hall 511, providing a chance to celebrate your peers’ entertaining accomplishments with a lineup of 12 student-made shorts. Short synopses of the films after the jump. More »