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Vanderbilt Student Film Festival
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 • 12-11 p.m. • Buttrick 103

The second annual Vanderbilt Student Film Festival promises to be an exciting event showcasing the talent and strong works coming out of the university’s creative and journalistic community. We invite all interested to attend this milestone event. 

Submissions this year not only cover stories on-campus but also reach out to the larger Nashville community. Fiction topics range from seniors contemplating life after college to a mockumentary on surviving a difficult science class. A series of documentaries emerging from the course “Filming Nashville” will feature issues like the homeless epidemic in Nashville and food insecurity, as well as an intimate profile on spoken word artists who use their work as a mechanism for hope and healing. 

Also in attendance will be Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers Peter Gilbert and Steve James (Hoop Dreams, 1986), who will screen their new feature length film, At the Death House Door. Following a discussion panel on their film, they will announce the student film festival winners.

Film Festival Schedule (print a PDF)

• 3:30 p.m. Taming the Beast: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Pass General Chemistry Quintin Lundy
• 3:49 p.m. Clairvoyance Sarah Brand and Matt Pagan
• 3:58 p.m. Cowboys & Germs Winnie Cheung and Rachel Unger
• 4:07 p.m. For the People, By the People Mark Kendall
• 4:13 p.m. This Purest of Evils (Episode 1) Nganiwe Ngwira
• 4:45 p.m. that year, the rain started Ross Vedder
• 4:51 p.m. Lullabye Lindsay Pounder
• 4:58 p.m. At the Death House Door Oscar-nominated guest filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert
• 6:35 p.m . Reception: Q&A with Steve James and Peter Gilbert
  Awards announcements
• 7:30 p.m. Ideology Director/Writer: William M. Akers; Producers: Kara Fein and Stacy Greenberg
• 7:41 p.m. Odyssey Lindsey Windham and Ashley Zeiger
• 7:58 p.m. Lemonade Casey Culver and Ethan Lazar
• 8:13 p.m. Home Away from Home Jeannette Francis and Andrew McCormick
• 8:30 p.m. Root Hog or Die Aarika Patel and Gabrielle Mercadante
• 8:42 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Mark Kendal and Andrew Larason
• 8:57 p.m. Ten Percent of Nothing Stewart Anderson, Stacy Greenberg, Hunter Kinsella, Alice Lanier
• 9:09 p.m. With Flowers and Balloons Ross Vedder
• 9:15 p.m. ReFacing Highschool Julissa Castillo and Andrew Larason
• 9:27 p.m. The Feast of St. Joseph Kara Fein, Hunter Kinsella, Mark Kendall, Alice Lanier
• 9:44 p.m. Attachment Michael DiBenigno
• 9:51 p.m. Off Air Levy Nguyen, Kirk Banks, Eric Anderson
• 10:00 p.m. I Met a Girl Spencer Blinski, Kara Fein, Hunter Kinsella, Alice Lanier, Scott Pierce
• 10:15 p.m. The Power of the Word Casey Culver, Beville Nicholas, Liz Rieckmann
• 10:30 p.m. Final Award Announcements (Audience Winner)

 

Award Categories

• Best Picture–Fiction (prize)
• Best Picture–Non-Fiction (prize)
• Vandy Gets Reel Award (small prize)—Best film as voted by the audience
• Best Directing
• Best Editing
• Best Cinematography
• Best Acting

Note: Award categories are subject to change based on submissions.

For more information, contact Kathy Conkwright at kconkwright@comcast.net or Ashley Crownover at ashley.crownover@vanderbilt.edu.