With nearly 400 movie-goers attending our sold-out, record-shattering night hosted by Connor Paolo of “Gossip Girl,” it is our pleasure to announce the winners of our 4th Annual National Undergraduate Film Festival (full results here, photo gallery here):

~ Best Picture ~
Sweet Jesus
Swati Kapila of New York University

~ Concord Award (Best Film Voted by the Audience) ~
Sweet Jesus
Swati Kapila of New York University

~ Best Directed ~
Sweet Jesus
Swati Kapila of New York University

~ Best Screenplay ~
Ticklish
Drew Foster & Max Grey of Harvard-Westlake School

~ Jury Prize ~
Kid Show
Tom DesLongchamp of Rhode Island School of Design

~ Frontiers Award (Most Original Film) ~
Missed Connections
Elena Megalos of Columbia University

~ Outreach Award (Best Film Dedicated to Community Service or of a Humanitarian Nature) ~
Still Standing
Lindsay Fauntleroy of Educational Video Center

~ Best Editing ~
Possession
J.R. Cox of Montana State University

~ Best Acting ~
Ticklish
Drew Foster & Max Grey of Harvard-Westlake School

~ Best Cinematography ~
Couples
Benjamin Nicholas of New York University

~ Opus Award (Best Use of Music & Sound) ~
A Long Way Home
Vincent Lin of New York University

More details and coverage to come…

Come to watch our 4th annual film festival (click here for details)!

You can now buy your tickets online here:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/468641

We will also be selling $5 VIP tickets to be entered into a raffle to win an iPod Nano.  They will be on sale in the Lerner Box Office between Thursday April 3rd and Saturday April 5th.

Congratulations to our selected finalists who will have their film screened on Saturday April 5th in the Roone Arledge Cinema of Columbia University (more info here)! After receiving over 100 film submissions from colleges and universities across the nation, we have selected the top 11 films to compete for our coveted awards and cash prizes.

Click here for a full list of winners (movie descriptions and filmmaker bio’s coming soon)

Attention all filmmakers

We have extended our deadline!!!

The new final deadline for submitting a film is MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2008. Your submission must be postmarked on or before this date. The submission fee is $20. You can find the submission form and information here

When: Saturday, April 5th, 2008 7pm-10pm
Where: Roone Arledge Cinema in Lerner Hall [map], Columbia University [directions], New York
How Much: $3 admission, which includes the cost for films and food
What to Expect:

• The top 10 selected short films from a pool of hundreds of student filmmakers from around the country.
• An awards ceremony which will determine who will receive over $1500 worth of cash and prizes, chosen by a panel of film professionals and celebrities
• If that’s not enough, we will have a full three-course meal served during intermissions.

For anyone who is planning to submit to our festival, we ask for you to fill in a quick pre-registration form. This will be used to keep you updated on various announcements we may have in regards to your submission. We don’t and won’t spam you! Please note that this is not a submission form and the actual submission forms can be found here. Good luck and happy filming!

We are excited to announce our official call for submissions! Here are the important points:

• Submitted films must be under 20 minutes
• We accept films of any genre
• Student filmmaker must be currently enrolled in high school or an undergraduate college or university
• DVD format highly preferred, however Mini-DV formats will also be accepted

Here are the important deadlines:

• Early Deadline - $10 - January 22nd, 2008
• Regular Deadline - $15 - February 29th, 2008
• Late Deadline - $20 - March 5th, 2008
  

This year, we are happy to announce that in addition to having your film screened in front of hundreds of people and having a panel of film-industry professionals and professors judge the top ten selected films, we will also be giving out cash prizes in addition to glass statuettes in the following categories:

• Best Picture - $400 prize
• Best Directed - $100 prize
• Best Screenplay - $50 prize
• Concord Award - $50 prize - best film as voted by the audience
• Best Editing
• Best Cinematography
• Best Acting
• Opus Award - for best use of music and sound
• Frontiers Award - for most original film
• Gateway Award - for an outstanding film of a humanitarian nature or a film dedicated to community service

If you are interested in submitting, please download the submission forms and follow the instructions as given:

• CUNUFF 2008 - Submission Form ( PDF format | DOC format )

Good luck and we hope to see your film!
~CUNUFF Team

Sneak preview of director Justin Lin’s (Better Luck Tomorrow) new comedy/satire: FINISHING THE GAME, to be released Friday, October 5th. Come for an intimate one-on-one info session on the film with: Sung Kang (Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift), Roger Fan (Better Luck Tomorrow), and other surprise guests!

• 8pm, Wednesday, Oct. 3rd
• Roone Arledge Cinema
• Lerner Hall, Columbia Unversity
• Free Popcorn and Food

• What: The General Body Meeting for the 2007-2008 4th Annual Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival (CUNUFF)
• Where: Roone Arledge Cinema in Alfred Lerner Hall
• When: 7:30 to 8:30pm, Wednesday September 19, 2007
• Why: Free food will be served

We welcome all filmmakers, movie-buffs, filmmaker-fetishists, casual movie-goers, or confused passerbys. Come learn about who we are, how you can help, how you can submit, or how you can watch.

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