Category: Film

Congratulations and thanks to all the students who participated in the CAMS department’s annual film festival, Festival de Cammes 2016. Special thanks to festival organizers Kayla Becich, Chris Griffin, Zachary Leonard, Camille Sanchez, Suhail Thandi and Marla Erickson.

CAMS major Theresa Heitz has essay on “The Production Code Administration and Sexual Spaces in East of Eden” published in Winter 2015 issue of Film Matters.

After graduating with a CAMS major in 2014 and joining the CAMS staff for a year as an Educational Associate in the CAMS Production Office, Isaac Burns to attend graduate film school.

The fifteen-minute film, titled Golden Golden (Erica Cho, 2015) is now circulating in festivals and has been nominated a finalist for the Festival Golden Reel Award for Excellence in Short-Form Filmmaking, an annual honor given by The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.  CAMS faculty Rini Yun Keagy was one of three directors of photography on the film, which was three years in the making.

Sala’s screenplay, The Fifth Stage, pitched as “Prisoners Meets Funny Games,” is an intense, contained thriller with a powerful, culturally relevant message and a tragic, thought-provoking conclusion.

Fraser’s eight-minute documentary short film, Colorblind, is an examination of six Asian and Asian-American young adults’ experience with racial politicking in America.

CAMS major Jack Turzillo ’16 received word that his short film “Joy” has been accepted to the 6th Annual Visions Film Festival and Conference at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington on April 14-15, 2016. 

Passionate about dance and film, senior Sarah Abdel-Jelil incorporated both of these interests into her Senior Comps project.

CAMS major Lily Eisenthal ’16 will present her senior comps paper at the fourth annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference at the University of Colorado-Boulder, April 14-17, 2016.

CAMS majors Veronica Garcia ’16 and Jonah Castañeda Barry ’16 will present their senior comps films at the 1st Annual Associated Colleges of the Midwest Student Film Conference and Festival at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin on April 1-3, 2016.