City University Film Festival
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The City University Film Festival, or CUFF, is the official film festival
of CUNY. The festival promotes creative collaboration between CUNY student filmmakers, offering students a chance to promote their own work, review the work of their peers, and engage with industry professionals. The festival is held annually in the spring and is open to the public. CUFF also offers free career development workshops throughout the year.
CUFF 2011 is scheduled for March 27, 2011. A Master Class by Peter Riegert
will be held on March 20, 2011.
film student Daniel Cowen in 2008. Cowen had made a short film and planned to enter it into CUNY's film festival when he was surprised to find that CUNY did not have one. In starting CUFF, Cowen hoped to foster a "sense of community and to promote cross campus projects" among students at CUNY's various commuter colleges.
CUFF's inaugural festival was held on March 29, 2009 at the Macaulay Honors College and screened 14 CUNY student films to over 150 attendees. CUFF 09 received seventy-four submissions from students of seven CUNY colleges.
CUFF 09 hosted a master class on March 22, 2009 that featured Melvin McCray, Senior editor at ABC
; Greg Rhem, Manager of Documentary acquisitions at HBO; Matt Kohn, documentary filmmaker and director of Call It Democracy.
In 2009, CUFF was sponsored by HBO and The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.
CUFF 2010 received over one hundred films. The festival was held on March 20, 2010. CUFF 2010 was sponsored by Thirteen
, HBO, and the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting
. CUFF 2011 received over 150 films.
Macaulay Honors College http://macaulay.cuny.edu/CUFF/?q=node/4
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
of CUNY. The festival promotes creative collaboration between CUNY student filmmakers, offering students a chance to promote their own work, review the work of their peers, and engage with industry professionals. The festival is held annually in the spring and is open to the public. CUFF also offers free career development workshops throughout the year.
CUFF 2011 is scheduled for March 27, 2011. A Master Class by Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director, best known for his role as Boon from Animal House and crooked New Jersey State Assemblyman Ronald Zellman on the HBO original series The Sopranos.-Early life:...
will be held on March 20, 2011.
History
CUFF was founded by Hunter CollegeHunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
film student Daniel Cowen in 2008. Cowen had made a short film and planned to enter it into CUNY's film festival when he was surprised to find that CUNY did not have one. In starting CUFF, Cowen hoped to foster a "sense of community and to promote cross campus projects" among students at CUNY's various commuter colleges.
CUFF's inaugural festival was held on March 29, 2009 at the Macaulay Honors College and screened 14 CUNY student films to over 150 attendees. CUFF 09 received seventy-four submissions from students of seven CUNY colleges.
CUFF 09 hosted a master class on March 22, 2009 that featured Melvin McCray, Senior editor at ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
; Greg Rhem, Manager of Documentary acquisitions at HBO; Matt Kohn, documentary filmmaker and director of Call It Democracy.
In 2009, CUFF was sponsored by HBO and The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.
CUFF 2010 received over one hundred films. The festival was held on March 20, 2010. CUFF 2010 was sponsored by Thirteen
WNET
WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...
, HBO, and the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting
Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting
The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting is the oldest film commission in the United States. It is New York City’s agency responsible for coordinating municipal support for film and television production, including approving film shoots and liaising with government agencies and promoting...
. CUFF 2011 received over 150 films.
Judging
CUFF 09 was judged by several CUNY film Professors and Greg Rhem of HBO. For CUFF 2010 judging, a panel of 20 CUNY film professors was convened. The CUNY faculty panel continues for the 2011 season.External links
CUFF Homepage http://www.macaulay.cuny.edu/CUFFMacaulay Honors College http://macaulay.cuny.edu/CUFF/?q=node/4