Discounted Tickets to Athena Film Festival

What: Discounted student tickets are available for the Athena Film Festival, which runs February 9th-12th on Barnard Campus. Student all-access passes for the full festival are $30. Buy tickets online at: http://athenafilmfestival.com/tickets/.

The Athena Film Festival will explore what makes a leader, examining the values women leaders share – vision, courage, resilience – and explore leadership across race, class, and culture.

The Festival will highlight the wide diversity of women’s leadership in both real life and the fictional world, illuminating the stories of women from across the globe who have made a difference in their countries and communities. Its goal is to open a robust dialogue about women and leadership: what it takes to excel, collaborate, lead, and inspire.

The Festival will showcase features, documentaries and shorts including The Whistleblower starring Rachel Weisz, Wish Me Away, the coming out journey of country singer Chely Wright, Black Butterflies starring Carice Van Houten, who won the best actress award at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words, a documentary about Gloria Steinem. The Lady starring Michelle Yeoh as Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi will serve as the closing film of the Festival.

For more information about the Festival, please visit, http://athenafilmfestival.com/.

Fall Senior Seminar in Filmmaking Showcase

What: Fall 2011 Senior Seminar in Filmmaking and Barnard’s Film Production Class will be screening their final films.

When: Wednesday, December 14, 6 – 9 PM

Where: Lehman’s Sloate Media Room, 305 at Barnard.

Club Board Positions

The deadline to apply for these board positions is Saturday, December 10th, at 11:59PM.

We are currently looking to fill a few positions in our club.

We are looking for a Assistant to Production Season Producer—to help our current one, Isaiah Everin, in managing production workshops and assisting the directors in producing their films for the spring production season (this position would lead into being the producer next year).

We are also looking for an Casting Director. The casting director will organize implementing online casting calls to gather and audition actors for our production season films.

We’re hoping to find people who are creative and ambitious to bring CUFP into more contact with our members and expand what opportunities we can make available. Please do not be shy! If you’re interested in any of these positions, please email cufilmproductions@columbia.edu with your interest, relevant experience, and a copy of your resume.

Interviews for both positions will be held on Sunday, December 11th.

Athena Film Festival Trailer Contest

What: The Athena Film Festival, is a celebration of women and leadership, held from February 9-12, 2012 at Barnard College. The 30 second to one-minute trailer will be used to promote the festival on-line and in other media and will run prior to the screening of festival films. In addition to having your trailer played during the Athena Film Festival, the winning filmmaker(s) will receive $500, an All-Access Pass to the festival, and 2 tickets to the Awards reception on February 9, 2012 as well as attribution in the Festival Program.

Deadline: All entries must be submitted on or before 5 pm., Tuesday, December 20, 2011. No extensions will be granted. Winners will be announced in January 2012 or sooner if practicable.

Submission Format: All submissions must be in a digital format. No DVDs will be accepted. The link with the submission should be sent by email to the following addresses: athenacenter@barnard.edu and athenafilmfestival@gmail.com. Videos in you tube and vimeo are preferred.

For requirements and more details on the contest, visit http://athenafilmfestival.com/2011/11/04/athena-film-festival-trailer-contest/

Martin Scorsese at Film Forum Tonight

What: Martin Scorsese introduces tonight’s 7:20 screening of “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp“. A limited number of tickets may be available at the box office today.

Film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, wife of director Michael Powell will be introducing tomorrow’s 7:20 screening of the film.

For more information, visit http://www.filmforum.org/films/blimp.html

Support Former Board Member’s Film Project

Former CUFP board member and current NYU grad student Frances Bodomo is looking for support on her latest film project through Kickstarter (link). Please consider contributing if you’re interested.

“BONESHAKER follows a Ghanaian immigrant family taking a road trip to a Pentecostal church in Louisiana to cure their violent daughter. As the family journeys to a tent revival at the ends of the levee-less Louisiana delta, they discover the complications of trying to perform a traditional ritual away from home. BONESHAKER focuses on the feelings of homelessness, landlessness, and rootlessness that accompany immigration.“

CUNUFF Animation Workshop

What: Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival (CUNUFF) will be hosting an animation workshop this Saturday and Sunday with Andy and Carolyn of LondonSquared. “Andy and Carolyn will take students through the in and outs of animation development and production, show how they made some of their award winning films, and give youthe chance to try out the tools of the trade.”

Tickets are available at TIC CU Arts Center in Alfred Lerner Hall. Individual tickets are $8, package tickets $5. RSVP on Facebook.

When:November 5th & 6th

Where: Lerner Hall 569

Submit to the Fall Showcase

If you’d like your film shown, now is the time to submit your film! All submissions must be submitted on DVD to CUFP in Lerner Club Space on the 5th floor.

Leave them in CUFP’s mailbox clearly labeled with your name and the name of the film. Additionally, please send an e-mail to cufp.submit@gmail.com with a link to your film and the title, year, director’s name, total running time (TRT), cast & crew, a brief synopsis and the name/contact information of the person submitting the film. Here is an example:

Title: My Great Movie
Year: 2010
Directed By: Carl Th. Dreyer
TRT: 5’10”07”’
Cast & Crew: JLG & FT
Submitted by: John Cassavetes
Contact Info: (555) 555-5555
Synopsis: In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft. In the shadow of her flight, capture, confession and burning at the stake, the young wife of the town’s aging pastor falls in love with the pastor’s son. Her confession of this illicit affair to her husband brings on her husband’s death. At the funeral the pastor’s mother denounces the young widow as a witch. Will her lover come to her defense, or has the day of wrath returned?

You should include up to 3 film stills for inclusion in the event program.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM Friday, November 11th.

The Other Israel Film Festival

What: Check out the 4th Annual Other Israel Film Festival, November 10 – 17. The festival, which is being held at venues across New York and Brooklyn, presents dramatic and documentary films, as well as engaging panels about the history, culture, and identity of the full range of diversity within the Israeli population, with a focus on Arab citizens of Israel. The festival will not only screen over twenty award winning and internationally acclaimed films, but also provide opportunities for audience members to meet and speak with with Directors, Actors, and Producers, as well as engage in panel discussions, speak easy’s, and musical events.

When/Where: For screening information, visit their website.

Crew for Short Film

What: LEGACY, a short film by Columbia alum, Maya Anand, is looking for G&E crew, a Script Supervisor, and PAs. Shooting will take place November 11-15 in the NY area.

Please contact vinay@smallcoup.com for more information.

About the Film: “Claire, a sheltered youngest child, is convinced by her domineering sister June to kill their eldest brother Samuel after he is named sole inheritor of their family’s property. But after Samuel’s ghost visits Claire, she begins to crave a new independence.“