Spring Break
A MovieFestivus for the rest of us
Terri Ciccone
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: Arts and Entertainment
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With a laptop, a digital camcorder and one week's time, hundreds of aspiring Emerson filmakers vied for their first red carpet film awards.
In the end, a spoof of a video game and two recreations of classic film scenes took the top prizes.
Campus MovieFest (CMF) calls itself the world's largest student film festival, and this year, some 12,000 students in the Boston area alone participated. CMF gave teams a laptop computer, a digital camcorder and a week's time to prove their creativity, talent and skill in five-minute films.
"Successful and acclaimed filmmakers don't materialize out of thin air. They start with an idea, a vision or a story to tell," said Tom Karsch, executive vice president and general manager of Turner Classic Movies, which sponsored the event along with cable network TBS.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern, Boston College, Tufts, Emerson and Boston University each had individual CMF finales beginning at the end of March and ending tonight.
Emerson had the largest number of contributors, with more than 100 teams.
On finale night Monday at the Courtyard Marriott on Tremont Street, 16 teams of finalists found out if they won one of three awards that would take them to the regional finale Saturday night at the Colonial Theatre.
From there, they could move on to the national finale at the Atlanta Film Festival on April 27.
After an hour and a half of funny plots, dramatic characters, avant-garde images and interesting camera angles, the winners were announced.
Out of a number of "very funny" films, Emerson freshman film major director Tony Yacenda's Guitar Legend won the TBS Very Funny film award with help from his team, Whisper Video.
This marriage of an E! "True Hollywood Story" and the epidemic video game Guitar Hero got tons of laughs as the main character of the film describes his life as a struggling guitar hero. The film depicts many stereotypical events in the life of a struggling musician, only with references to the popular video game.
In the end, a spoof of a video game and two recreations of classic film scenes took the top prizes.
Campus MovieFest (CMF) calls itself the world's largest student film festival, and this year, some 12,000 students in the Boston area alone participated. CMF gave teams a laptop computer, a digital camcorder and a week's time to prove their creativity, talent and skill in five-minute films.
"Successful and acclaimed filmmakers don't materialize out of thin air. They start with an idea, a vision or a story to tell," said Tom Karsch, executive vice president and general manager of Turner Classic Movies, which sponsored the event along with cable network TBS.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern, Boston College, Tufts, Emerson and Boston University each had individual CMF finales beginning at the end of March and ending tonight.
Emerson had the largest number of contributors, with more than 100 teams.
On finale night Monday at the Courtyard Marriott on Tremont Street, 16 teams of finalists found out if they won one of three awards that would take them to the regional finale Saturday night at the Colonial Theatre.
From there, they could move on to the national finale at the Atlanta Film Festival on April 27.
After an hour and a half of funny plots, dramatic characters, avant-garde images and interesting camera angles, the winners were announced.
Out of a number of "very funny" films, Emerson freshman film major director Tony Yacenda's Guitar Legend won the TBS Very Funny film award with help from his team, Whisper Video.
This marriage of an E! "True Hollywood Story" and the epidemic video game Guitar Hero got tons of laughs as the main character of the film describes his life as a struggling guitar hero. The film depicts many stereotypical events in the life of a struggling musician, only with references to the popular video game.
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