2012 CUFF Honorees and Faculty-selected Winning Films Announced!
The City University Film Festival gala event and screening of winning films takes place Sunday March 18th at Macaulay Honors College. Congrats to the winners and thanks to all who submitted!
The Shop (Maria Snow, 5min)
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City University Film Festival at Macaulay: March 14-18 2012
The City University Film Festival at Macaulay (CUFF) announces a range of events and screenings March 14-18, 2012 at the CUNY Graduate Center, Hunter College and Macaulay Honors College.
On Wednesday March 14th CUFF kicks off with a series of camera workshops, and a “resource fair” for CUNY-founded businesses and partners, screening series and film departments. A DSLR workshop, and a film camera demo, will be presented by Director of Photography Rommel Genciana and Daniel Phelps, professor at York College, CUNY. Participating CUNY-based businesses include: Endless Picnic, Mastershot Films and Production Shop LLC. Students from across the CUNY universe are encouraged to come out and meet students, alums and faculty.
Wednesday 3/14 6-9pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave.
Skylight Room, 9th Floor
On Thursday March 15th Hunter will host a screening of CUNY faculty-made documentaries, including Vinit Parmar’s Living River (2010, 60 minutes) a probing look at pollution in the Ganges River. Gold Winner at the Oregon Film Awards and Official Selection at the NYC International Film Festival. Preceded by: Broad Channel by Sarah Christman. “Over the course of four seasons, the nuances of everyday activity are examined
along one narrow stretch of public shoreline in New York City’s Jamaica Bay.” Featured at L Magazine’s Northside Festival 2011.
Thursday 3/15 7-9pm
Hunter College, 695 Park Ave. (enter at 68th or 69th St.)
Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Hunter North, 4th Floor
On Friday March 16th Macaulay Honors College will host a panel on Kickstarter and crowd-sourced fundraising for films, featuring Elisabeth Holm, director of the Film Program at Kickstarter.com, and filmmakers CUNY alums Sasha Wortzel and Adam Besheer, both of whom recently funded new projects on Kickstarter – the feature documentary Starlite (We Came to Sweat) and the short narrative piece Tribe, respectively. Moderated by CUFF Artistic Director Nick Shimkin. Followed by a special rough cut screening of Hunter IMA candidate Alex Mallis’ new kickstarter-funded documentary Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest
Friday 3/16 6pm
Macaulay Honors College, Lecture Hall
35 West 67th St.
Sunday features our annual Gala Premiere and Closing Night! A reception begins at 6pm and prize-winning new work from across CUNY will be showcased in both the screening room and lecture hall. Followed by an awards presentation and discussion with winning filmmakers.
Sunday 3/18 6-10pm
Macaulay Honors College, 35 West 67th St.
All screening and events are free and open to all CUNY students, staff, faculty and the general public. Please RSVP to events here:
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/rsvp/event-registration/?ee=86
Once again, we’re grateful to our corporate partners, which this year include HBO, B&H EDU, WNET Thirteen, and Footage Firm.
Please contact us at cityuniversityfilmfestival [at] gmail [dot] com for more information on this and upcoming programs!
Sincere thanks to our host and founding venue Macaulay Honors College - located at 35 West 67th St. New York, NY
See you at the movies!
Nick Shimkin, CUFF Artistic Director
Tom Flynn, CUFF Assistant Director
