Film Studies at the Five Colleges

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Five College Student Film & Video Festival

The Five College Student Film & Video Festival (view a flyer) is an annual event featuring original films and videos by Five College students. Founded in 1994, the festival has become an important venue for film students to meet, collaborate, and share their productions with their peers and with the college film community.

Students from each of the Five Colleges organize the festival with the assistance of a Student Director from the host college and a faculty advisor. The festival, which is sponsored by the Five College Film Council, is a competitive event held at the end of the spring semester. Submissions are evaluated by a jury of students and film faculty from each of the Five Colleges. Selected works are shown at the festival and awards are given for the best works in designated categories.

All Five College students and recent graduates are invited to submit film and videos for consideration.

Spring 2008:

Festival screening and Award Ceremony: Friday February 29, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in Stoddard Hall Auditorium, Smith College.

Faculty Advisor: Baba Hillman, Hampshire/Five College Assistant Professor of Video and Film Production

Student Director: Lizz Lyons, Smith College

Festival Entry DEADLINE: 3:00 p.m., Thursday February 21, 2008

Please read eligibility requirements carefully (see Entry Form and flyer) and submit your entries with the complete form and application fee(s) to the site at your home campus:

Amherst College: Media Services, Seeley Mudd
Hampshire College: Film/Photo equipment booth
Mount Holyoke College: Art Department office, 201 Art Building
Smith College: Center for Media Production
UMass Amherst: Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies Office, 129 Herter Annex
Questions? Contact Lizz Lyons.


Last year's festival screening and award ceremony took place on May 11, 2007 in Stirn Auditorium at Smith College. View a list of winners, including clips of some of the work

Click here to view the program from the Festival