USU-Tube Short Film Festival at USU

To showcase the talents of aspiring filmmakers, Utah State University’s Caine School of the Arts sponsors the first USU-Tube Short Film Festival Friday, April 24, in the Caine Lyric Theatre (28 W. Center Street, Logan) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased by calling 435-797-8022, online or at the door.

 

A call for entries was released in February asking for short films to be submitted for consideration. The films were required to include two elements (an alarm and a pair of red shoes) and a choice to include three of a number of listed elements. The films could not be more than four minutes long, excluding credits.

 

Fifteen films were selected for upload to the Caine School of the Arts’ You-Tube site and the public is invited to view the films. Films selected for viewing include The Winning Dream directed by Ben Wilkey; The Hill and The Legend of Ronald McNabb directed by Shane Jonson; Open Umbrella: A RockBand Documentary directed by Leon Hall; The Cold Call directed by Aaron Smith; Nature Walk, Cookie Dough and The Terrace directed by Travis D. Bourne; The Life and Death of my Kinsman Burt directed by Matthew Pool; All That Glisters is Not Gold directed by Richard Okelberry; Friday and Love directed by Ben Zurcher; Feeling the Dream: Exercising in Jeans directed by Madison Pope; Call My Bluff directed by Seth Graves; The Curse of the Baba Yaga by Ashley Smith; and Missing Wallet by Erik Packard.

 

“We are really excited by the diversity and uniqueness of each film,” said Jeannie Thomas, associate dean in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and committee member. “The inspiration came from the Apple Insomnia Film Festival. We thought we could do the same thing here at Utah State. We’ve been really pleased by the response and the creativity of the films.”

 

Four prizes are to be awarded, including Voter’s Choice (determined by the number of first place votes each film receives), Highest Hits (determined by the number of hits each film receives on the You-Tube site), Judges Choice (determined by a panel of judges votes) and Overall (determined by a combination of the other three prizes). Prizes range from $1,000 for Overall to $500 for Voter’s Choice, Highest Hits and Judges Choice. All four prizes can go to one film, contest organizers said.

 

More information on the films festival, along with links to view and vote for the selected films, is online.