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sday, February 15,2000 THE BATTALION Page 3
College Station's film festival gears up for seventh year
BY MATT MCCORMICK
The Battalion
hough Texas A&M is known for its dedica
tion to the sciences more so than the arts, it is
also home to the largest student-run film fes
tival in the nation, the Texas Film Festival.
This year A&M will host the seventh
Texas Film Festival, an event'dedicated to giving inde
pendent and student filmmakers a chance to showcase
their efforts.
Planned, organized and sponsored by the MSC
Film Society, this festival has had a history of bring
ing some of the top
names in the business
to the A&M campus.
The first festival in
1993 drew director
Spike Lee (Do the
Right Thing and He
Got Game) to College
Station.
Since then festivals
have included such fea
tured guests as Oliver
Stone (director of .//-'AT
and Natural Born
Killers), John Sayles
(director of Lone Star)
and last year's guest,
Tim McGanlies (direc
tor of Dancet, Texas.
Pop. HI).
fhe Texas Film Fes
tival consists of five
nights of feature films
and shorts with film
making workshops held
in fhe afternoons.
The MSC Film Society received over a 150 sub
missions for the festival; committee members had to
select the submissions they thought were best.
“The 111ms we received this year were some of the
best we have seen, but obviously we could not show
every film. So we had to go through and select the
cream of the crop,” said Casey Starr, festival director
and a senior industrial distribution major.
“For this festival we have the best films we have had
in years,” said Logan Youree. vice-chairperson for Film
Society and a junior speech communications major.
This year's festival also features more short films
and documentaries than normal.
“We are bringing about 10 more short films this year
as well as showing three documentaries.'' Stair said.
Each night, a question-and-answer session will be
held with the film’s director after the showing.
“I believe that the sessions with the directors will
prove to be informational to anyone interested in film.”
Starr said.
There will also be w orkshops hosted by many of the
directors and producers of the films featured at the fes
tival that will provide information about many aspects
of filmmaking. The workshops are free and will be
geared toward a broader audience than in the past.
"The workshops this semester are artistic but they
are going to be of more interest to the general public
[and ] are more likely to draw members of the popula
tion who are not necessarily heavy-duty into film,"
Starr said.
The festival has grown and changed from a student
involvement perspective as well.
“Administratively, we have more student involvement
in this year's festival,” said Ryan Whitw orth, chairof Film
Society and a senior biomedical science major.
This year’s festival features acclaimed director
Robert Rodriguez as the guest to close the festival. His
film credits include £7 Mariachi, Desperado, From
Dusk Til Dawn and The Faculty. Rodriguez will be
hosting a special screening of his landmark film El
Mariaehi on the closing night of the festival and will
be available for a question and answer session from the
audience.
Rodriguez has exhibited a strong influence in film
making over only a few short years, and he is one of
the most influential guests that students will have the
opportunity to see.
"1 think with a director like Rodriguez in a tow n like
College Station, that we can count on a pretty big
turnout,” Starr said.
The festival also gained some attention with the an
nouncement that actress Sandra Bullock (who starred
in Speed and Forces of Nature) would be attending the
festival.
“Essentially. Sandra Bullock approached us about at
tending the festival. She had heard about it and called up
and expressed interest. I think we are finally getting a
reputation w ithin the industry,” Youree said.
However, because the production date of her next
film was moved up, Bullock cannot attend the festival.
Another demonstration of the prestige the festival
has gained is in its acquisition the short films, Cul
ture and Radiation, which were shown at the Sun
dance Film Festival. Culture has been called “the
best minute in film” by critics present at this year's
Sundance Festival.
The festival is the MSC Film Society’s single-
largest event of the year, and is sponsored by several
local businesses this year who have helped raise funds
to bring high-quality films and guests. This is also the
first year the MSC Film Society has been co-sponsored
by MSC Icons, an organization dedicated to bringing
notable people to campus.
Prices for the screenings Vary by event, but there is a
festival pass available for S30. More information on the
Texas Film Festival can be obtained by contacting the
MSC Film Society at 847-8478 or by visiting the festi
val’s Web page at http://films.tamu.edu/festival.
See Pages 6 and 7 for more information.
Liberal Arts Career Week
Tonight: Interviewing Workshop
7:00 - 8:15 p.m.
Rudder 510
Tomorrow: Networking Workshop
7:00 - 8:15 p.m.
Rudder 410
Thursday: Alumni Forum
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Reed Arena
Social
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. Reed Arena
Friday: Career Fair
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Rudder Exhibit Hall
Christianity
An Inter-faith Dialogue Presented by the
Muslim Students' Association
Dr. Ihsan Bagby
(Shaw University, North Carolina)
Dr. Bob Mayfield
(Dir. of Baptist Student Ministry, TAMU)
Free Admission! Refreshments served!
Fore more info, email islamlOl @tamu.edu or call 693-5463