{"id":57228,"date":"2014-02-12T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=57228"},"modified":"2020-10-17T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T16:48:13","slug":"ucf-film-professors-students-prime-time-roles-short-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-film-professors-students-prime-time-roles-short-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ Film Professors, Students Have Prime-time Roles at Love Your Shorts Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
Several Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ Film professors and students are playing starring roles in this weekend\u2019s Love Your Shorts Film Festival, which will feature 70 films from 17 countries.<\/p>\n
Four films with Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ ties were accepted to be screened at the Feb. 14-16 festival, a group of five Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ faculty members and undergraduate students will lead workshops for filmmakers, and one professor will be a festival judge. The weekend event will be held in the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s important for students to enter film festivals so that they can experience their film along with a live audience,\u201d said Lisa Mills, an associate professor of film and organizer of the workshops.\u00a0 \u201cWatching a film in a dark room is a much more communal experience than watching it on a DVD or computer screen.\u00a0You see and hear things in your film that you never noticed before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three of the films to be shown were directed by students:<\/p>\n
The fourth film was directed by Robert Cassanello, an associate professor in the History Department, and Mills. The 24-minute documentary, The Committee<\/em>, was researched and written by students in an honors documentary class, and was edited by Aaron Hose, a video producer in Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½\u2019s Center for Distributed Learning.<\/p>\n The movie is about a little-known investigative committee of the Florida Legislature from 1956 to 1964 that sought to root out homosexuals from state universities.<\/p>\n The festival\u2019s educational workshops were designed by Mills for visiting and aspiring filmmakers, and will be held Thursday morning at the Greater Sanford Regional Chamber of Commerce. In addition to Mills, other panelists are: Andrew Kenneth Gay, a visiting assistant professor of film and independent filmmaker; and film graduate students Max Rosseau, Tim Ritter and Charles Sutter.<\/p>\n The workshops are: \u201cSo You Have an Idea for a Film\u2014Now What?\u201d and \u201cSo You\u2019ve Made an Independent Film\u2014Now What?\u201d<\/p>\n The festival shows films in seven categories (comedy, drama, animation, documentary, sci-fi\/horror, Florida Flavor and E for Everyone, which is for viewers of all ages). The winners of each block of films, as determined by the voting viewers, advance to the final Best of the Fest block of movies on Sunday night, at which Mills also is one of the five judges.<\/p>\n Mills said she loves the art of the short film because they are tight and concise.<\/p>\n \u201cThe good ones make you like the main character very quickly and deliver a simple and elegant message at the end,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n