This weekend, the red carpet will be rolled out on campus, celebrating a year of student filmmaking with the Carolina Film Association.
The organization's annual film festival is almost here, and a record two dozen student-made films will be showcased on April 27 and 28 in the Genome Sciences Building from 5-9 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow on Sunday night.
Tickets are $4 per day and can be purchased online or in person before the event.
With over 200 undergraduate members from across disciplines, CFA provides a stage for student filmmakers to bring their creative projects to life.
“CFA is honestly a place where people who have this mutual interest and can’t bring it to its full potential in the academic realm can meet up and can make their filmmaking ambitions come true,” Keller Huffman, executive production advisor and filmmaker, said. “I think that the festival is a great way to see these passions in a way that you might not see in a classroom.”
The festival will present all of this year’s projects, which span various genres. Jack Spencer Gentry, co-president of CFA, said comedy is the biggest genre this year, though there are horror, drama, sci-fi and fantasy films as well.
“Dingus,” Huffman’s film, is certainly a comedy. The plot centers around a “helpless himbo who finds himself in a world of misfortune when he loses his vape on the way to a date," he said.
Huffman wrote and directed his project this year, an undertaking that he began in July of 2023. He was matched with a producer, cast and crew through the club, followed by what Huffman said was a lengthy and dedicated process with two months of filming and about a month and a half of editing.
Mary Katherine Ware, outreach chair at CFA, wrote and assistant directed her film this year after producing and acting in CFA films previously.
