Author: Brett Fujioka
Despite the abundance of free hors d’oeuvres and wine last Friday night, the excitement in Thorne Hall was in anticipation of the Film department’s annual Senior Film Comps presentation. Students, faculty and friends had a chance to mingle with one another before the screenings took place.
The event featured a total of 12 short films, all of which differed in genre and tone. Alexander Drecun (senior) and Michael Covino (senior) were the masters of ceremony for the night, in addition to having their own respective works screened.
Here’s a recap of the night’s showings:
Amelia Simoncelli’s Refrain From Speaking is a comedy dealing with a murder within a family business.
Cristina Campos brushes up against the creative process of student filmmaking in her film: Open Lens.
Albert Vazquez deals with existentialism in: Awake at Night.
Robyn Tofukuji did a personal documentary on her grandfather’s service during World War II in: My Grandpa, My Hero: An American Story.
Along the same vein, Bryan Curiel filmed an intimate documentary on adoptions in In the Shadow of Giants.
Covino’s The Liberation of Teddy Wendin is a comedy about a mishap concerning a misconstrued child kidnapping from a perceived abusive mother.
Brandon Peters comments on America’s doped up tendencies towards child medication in Doses.
Moana Casanova did a piece on a trans-gendered kid’s transition through his relationship with another woman in Becoming Lovely.
Jim Leonard’s The Book of Matthew is a comedy about the lifestyles of the religious and blasphemous.
Christy Nakada’s Marty’s is a tidbit on what people find at the bottom of the bottle.
Drecun deals with a scandal that shook up his church in Wayfaring.
Mark Mueller’s Blind Date is a comical mockumentary of the absurdity of scripted reality television.
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