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The Notre Dame Student Film Festival 2003
The wildly popular Notre Dame Student Film Festival screened Jan. 23-27, 2003 with a brand new slate of creative, intelligent, and entertaining student films produced during the past year in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre. Screenings were at the Hesburgh Library Carey Auditorium at 7:30 and 9:45pm Thurs-Sat., Jan. 23-25 and Mon. Jan 27. Approximately 1600 attended the eight screenings.
The 14th Annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival featured eleven short student films which were made as class projects by students studying the art of filmmaking in advanced and intermediate film and video production courses taught in the FTT department. All of the films were shot on location, most in the South Bend area, some in Chicago and Peoria, IL. Local Michiana residents, fellow students, ND faculty, and even a very famous ND personality loaned their acting skills to the projects which range from 5-13 minutes in length. From black comedy to documentary, the films covered a wide range of genres. Total running time approximately 110 minutes.
2003 ND Student Film Festival Featured Films
Hate The Rangers
Directed by: Ryan Lockwood and Angela Grimmer
Running Time: 8:20
Description:
An entertaining look at rabid Scottish football fans from Chicago who gather not only to cheer for their own team but to root against their arch rivals.
Year: 2002
Billboard Liberation
Directed by: Adam Weltler and Tim Ryan
Running Time: 11:47
Description:
Set to a driving musical beat, Billboard Liberation is literally that - a manifesto calling for the destruction -- or at least transformation -- of the omnipresent and insipid commercial billboard, and a intimate portrait of those radical citizens who take and make billboards their own -- at night, while we are all asleep. This film is literally a scream against the desecrated urban landscape, and a call for revenge.
Year: 2002
The Two Of Us Here
Directed by: Maggie Moran and Brent Buckman
Running Time: 5:59
Description:
Graduating seniors bid farewell to Notre Dame with this video art postcard, an informal discussion of where they came from and where they're headed to, accompanied by a visually stunning scrapbook of images past, present, and future.
Year: 2002
Tangled Up In Blue
Directed by: Brian Galla and Paul Ybarra
Running Time: 12:33
Description:
A beautifully acted story of a young college grad who just can’t "get going" with his life. Unemployed and still living with his grandmother at age 25, James, a hypochondriac, dreams of cancer as a release from his confused condition, and fends off calls from his relentless father who wants to know if he’s sent in his law-school application yet. Meanwhile he silently rages against an unknown woman who walks by his house every day on her way to work. Her confident appearance and sense of purpose literally drive him out of his mind.
Year: 2002
Seven Nights A Week
Directed by: Aaron Perri and Matt Peters
Running Time: 10:20
Description:
A look inside the bingo halls of South Bend from the people who play the game, to the ones who rake in the money.
Year: 2002
Adam's Puzzle
Directed by: Todd Boruff and Andy Gomez
Running Time: 6:00
Description:
A well-crafted, small black-and-white film about a boy whose rubik's cube-like toy becomes the centerpiece of a park playground full of boys and girls.
Year: 2002
How To Love Yourself
Directed by: Dan Ackerman and Taylor Romigh
Running Time: 11:45
Description:
A"self-help" tape to do just that: help us to learn to love ourselves. Six vignettes demonstrate six dramatic situations where – if we could only remember to "trust ourselves", "believe in love", "forgive ourselves", etc., life could be sweet. But this is a self-help tape that self-destructs before your eyes -- as if a invisible viewer’s mind crashes the party, from the inside out.
Year: 2002
Racist
Directed by: Dustin Park and Peter Richardson
Running Time: 12:57
Description:
Matthew Hale, leader of the white supremecist movement in Peoria, IL gives you his canted view of the world, while the directors "re-define" his language with precisely placed definitions on screen as Mr. Hale talks.
Year: 2002
Two Boys
Directed by: Liam Dacey and Chris Bannister
Running Time: 8:44
Description:
A seductive musical fable about the sexual education of the American boy. There’s this 14 year old, Dan -- or any average American teen -- who tries out the script of male sexual bravado as he’s learned it first-hand from music videos, TV programs and late night male talk shows. He tries it out on three gyrating sexy women who magically appear on his front porch one spring night. When the bravado doesn’t pay off, he falls into another script of rage against the female -- the kind of rage and revenge that could fuel a serial killer’s darkest plans.
Year: 2002
Buckthorn Berry Pie
Directed by: Scott Little and Tom Griffin
Running Time: 7:29
Description:
In his late 60's, just months after the loss of his wife, Tom Buckthorn has developed into a relentless curmudgeon, avoiding friends and family and developing strict regimens of mindless chores just to get him through the day, and the pain. One afternoon, while trying to get his lawnmower running, grumbling over the excessive number of gnomes which his late wife had sprinkled around the back yard, She appears - just like that. Let’s just say she softens him up a bit, then sends him back to the kitchen to check in the oven for a Buckthorn berry pie.
Year: 2002
Empty Orchestra
Directed by: Jeremy Renteria and Scott Little
Running Time: 12:58
Description:
A pub crawl of local South Bend establishments uncovers the serious and not-so-serious business of karaoke, from those who perform to those who spin the discs.
Year: 2002