The screenings for this year's Ed Wood Film Festival are upon us! As the official blurb from the Arts and Events calendar runs:
"The annual Ed Wood Film Festival is sponsored by New Residential College and open to all USC Students. Participants have 24 hours to write, shoot and edit a film in accordance with a secret theme.
The secret theme for the five-minute films will be released the day of shooting.
The following weekend, the top films will be screened in Norris with a catered reception. There will be prizes awarded in various categories, including one for Best Picture. The event is entirely student run, and showcases the talent of the USC student body. Expect some guest judges."
The theme this year was "my eyes are killing me!" with the added stipulation that all films include a theme object, a mirror. I am also pleased to announce that the film Ben Sherman and I helped make has made it into the main screening on Saturday (the one with the judges). We'd really appreciate it if some of our fellow IMDers came out to support us (did anybody else make a film this year?) and our teammates, but more importantly, Ed Wood screenings are always a blast. Nowhere else will you find a theater so packed (show up early!) with enthusiastic young filmmakers pouring their hearts out on screen to such comedic and touching ends. Sure they'll all be up (or are up) on youtube in a week, but for most students this is a rare opportunity to see their films up on the big screen.
Additionally, there is another screening Friday (Lucas 108, I believe) where all the films that didn't make it get screened. Bring your 3D glasses to that one, my roommates made a film with a stereoscopic first persons (not a typo) sequence.