This past Wednesday, April 22, Campus Activities Board co-sponsored Campus Movie Fest, the world’s largest annual student film and music festival. For a week, students are provided with an Apple laptop with Adobe, Western Digital external storage, Panasonic HD camcorders and training to create a five minute movie. The top movies can win prize money and a chance to go to the Campus Movie Fest Awards. This year at Fordham, there were more movies made than ever before and a good variety of genres to choose from. Here are some of the highlights:
Best Actress GTA Nominee
Stephanie Twyford Baldwin, FCLC ‘16, who starred in V”erona,” which, filmed in Japan, was about a Japanese salary-man fleeing from a romantically obsessed ghost.
Best Actor in a Fordham Movie
Kevin Fulmer, GBS ‘17, who starred in “FU Class Registration.”
GTA Nominee- Soundtrack
“Expectations: A Short Film”: A girl’s adventure in Manhattan does not turn out as well as she expected.
GTA Nominee- Story
“Detective: Cool Gun”: Jim desperately tries to get his roommate, Stephen, to be in his awesome spy movie.
Jury Award Winners
“FU Class Registration”: SP Studios gives an in depth analysis of the 233rd semi-annual class registration at Fordham University.
“Mine”: Alison finds an old-looking bracelet and is plagued by a ghost in the days following. Directed by Morgan Greene, FCRH ’17, this movie gives a comedic turn to a supposed horror film.
“Browser History”: A college student believes he is being stalked by the NSA.
“Detective: Cool Gun”: James Murtagh, FCRH ’15, created a hysterical short film that was mostly improv, which made the randomness of the movie even better.
All of these movies were in the Fordham campus finalist group, along with 10 other student films. The turn out this year was huge and along with the usual comedies, there were many dramas, mysteries and the fair share of scary films.
