Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Fe

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Got this in the wufs inbox, thought I should pass it along:

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Dear Film Department instructors and friends of student filmmakers,

Happy New Year! I hope the second semester is going off to a great start. My name is Calvin Sun and I am a student at Columbia College and the co-founder and director of the Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival. After our success last Spring, we are happy to say that we are once again having a call for submissions for our annual national undergraduate film festival at Columbia University. We wish to ask you if you know of any undergraduate students that would be interested in submitting a few films for our 2007 film festival. It would also be wonderful if you can forward this message to any students you know that may be interested in submitting their work.

This event will be held on the Columbia University campus, featuring ten student films selected for their distinction and excellence among a pool of submissions from nearly a hundreds schools across the country. A selected group of professionals already well-established in the filmmaking industry will judge the films to win awards in any of the nine categories:

-The Soundtrack Award for best use of music & sound
-Best Screenplay
-Best Editing
-Best Cinematography
-Best Acting
-The Frontiers Award for Most Original Film
-Best Directed
-Best Overall (Best Picture)
-The Outreach Award for an outstanding film of a humanitarian nature or a film dedicated to Community Service.
-The Concord Award will be given to the best film voted by the general audience.

The event will take place in early April at Columbia University in New York City, where the finalists' films will be screened at Columbia's Roone Arledge Cinema of Lerner Hall. Films of all genres are accepted. The film submission deadline is tentatively set for March 9th.

Attached is the .doc file of the 2007 submission form that includes specific submission requirements. For further information regarding the festival you may visit our website at www.CUfestival.com/
or you may e-mail me back at [e-mail]

Thank you again for all your help last year. I wish continued success in your endeavors in the art of filmmaking.

Sincerely yours,

Calvin D. Sun
Co-Founder & Co-Director
Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival

6409 Lerner Hall
New York, NY 10027-8366

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www.CUfestival.com