Centrally Isolated Film Festival

Attention student filmmakers!

Submissions for the 9th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival are now open!

Submission Guidelines:
-Any narrative, documentary, or experimental student films
-Films must be 20 minutes or less in length
-Maximum 2 submissions per person
-DEADLINE: February 18
-NO entry fee

For specific details about how to submit, please visit pma.cornell.edu/ciff

Centrally Isolated Film Festival Cornell University Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Cornell Ambassadors For Media and Performance

Attention student filmmakers!

Submissions for the 9th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival are now open!

Submission Guidelines:
-Any narrative, documentary, or experimental student films
-Films must be 20 minutes or less in length
-Maximum 2 submissions per person
-DEADLINE: February 18
-NO entry fee

For specific details about how to submit, please visit pma.cornell.edu/ciff

🎉 Thanks for viewing this year's selected films online, and congratulations to all of the talented students who submitted films for the festival! 🎬

This year's winners:
▪Best Narrative Film
"The Bag" - Sam Azghandi, Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: "Remember Me in Therapy" - Jacob Mollot, Ithaca College

▪Best Documentary Film
"What An Ivy League Restaurant Taught Me About Success" - Ryan Ng
Honorable Mention: "Jornada" - Mary Conlon, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

▪Best Experimental Film
"Bibi Amir" - Zelikha Zohra Shoja, Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: "Pictorial Abstraction" - Nick Rockwood, Binghamton University

▪Audience Award
Winner: "La Cena Italiana" -- Alex Chu, Colgate University
Honorable Mention: "Panto" -- Justin d'Emilio, Ithaca College

Cornell Performing & Media Arts - PMA

Join us TODAY for the 8th Annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival!

From April 22–April 30, visit bit.ly/centrallyisolatedfilmfestival to stream selected films for free by students from Cornell, Ithaca College, Binghamton University, Syracuse, UC Berkeley, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Colgate, CUNY.

Cash prizes of $200 are awarded to first-place winners in four categories: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, and Audience Choice.

Live announcement of winners will be held on April 30 at 4:30 p.m. EDT

https://pma.cornell.edu/content/8th-annual-centrally-isolated-film-festival

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The 8th Annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival

Pictured: A still from “Remember Me in Therapy” and Director Jacob Mollot

After waking up one fateful morning, George discovers that Earth has been destroyed by an intergalactic alien race/corporation called "The Gleebloys." With the help of a 'therapizing' alien named Ruben, the two must piece together what led to the planet’s destruction.

Jacob Mollot is from the Roy H Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Mollot graduated in 2020 with a BS in Cinema and Photography

To see “Remember Me in Therapy” and other great films, check out the CIFF Website April 22-30!

Pictured: A Still from “Brick by Brick” and Director/Editor Noah Alpers

In “Brick by Brick,” Witness a COVID-riddled Oklahoma town begin to fray as dissidents protest increasing mask regulations. Through a patchwork of interviews, archival footage and director commentary, “Brick by Brick” explores the way in which a global crisis has unearthed divisions in local and national political discourse.

Noah Alpers is a Junior at Cornell, who has loved creative writing and making movies with his friends from a young age. His favorite film is a tie between Troll 2 and 400 Blows.

To see “Brick by Brick” and other great films, check out the CIFF Website April 22-30!

Pictured: A still from “Jornada” as well as a picture of Director Mary Conlon.

Jornada, which means "day" or "journey" in Spanish, is also the name of the largest food pantry in Flushing. The amount of families La Jornada feeds each week has increased tenfold since the pandemic started. Through the eyes of the pantry's volunteers, this short documentary examines the human cost of providing for so many people. Mary Conlon is a video journalist based in New York City. Her written and visual stories have been published by Univision, City Limits, the NYCity News Service, iPondr, and Latino Rebels. She graduated from CUNY with her Master’s in Spanish-language Journalism in December of 2020.

To see “Jornada” and other great films, check out the CIFF Website April 22-30!

Still from "USSR is Cancelled" by Polly Chesnokova and Zuzka Wnuk from Dartmouth College.

About "USSR is Cancelled": Kyiv, USSR Ukraine in the 90s. Two boy-pioneers leave the city for a weekend camping trip. Coming back, they learn that the Soviet Union has fallen, proving that everything they thought they knew about their country was false.... for better or worse.

Still from "Bibi Amir" by Zelikha Zohra Shoja (pictured), a student at Syracuse University.

About "Bibi Amir": In the absence of photographs and material evidence of a life, a family traces a maternal presence through an archive of feelings and corporeal memory.

To watch "Bibi Amir" and other excellent student films, tune into CIFF April 22-30!

Pictured: Stills from "isolation" by Kingsley Song from University of Pennsylvania.

"isolation" explores the toll of being a student during a pandemic through experimental hand-drawn animation in its use of color, abstraction, and metaphors of the internal and external self. Touching on themes of monotony, screen-fatigue, and reconciliation with oneself, "isolation" offers a vulnerable perspective on life in the current moment.

To watch "isolation" and other great student films, check out the CIFF website April 22-30!