MovieFest awards student filmmakers
This Saturday, April 21, the top 16 films of the Campus MovieFest (CMF), the world's largest student film festival, will have a premiere showing at the historic Colonial Theatre in Boston. Tufts students compete with students from Emerson College, Northeastern University, MIT, Boston College and Boston University, for over $50,000 in cash and prizes and the chance for their films to be shown to the greater Boston community and beyond. Upon entering the CMF, students had one week to make a five-minute-long movie using free moviemaking kits of the latest software and materials, thanks to TBS and Turner Classic Movies. The awards for this Boston branch of the competition include: CMF Best Picture, the CMF Audience Choice, TBS Very Funny Film and TCM's Classic Short Film.
This Saturday, the films will be narrowed down, and those at the top will move on to contend with the works of almost 30,000 students nationwide, culminating in the Campus MovieFest National Grand Finale. Come support your fellow Tufts student filmmakers this Saturday at the Colonial Theatre at 106 Boylston Street. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.
S-Factor arrives on a cappella scene
Sometimes it's hard to believe that a small college like Tufts has the talent pool to support the number of theater, music and artistic events on campus. However, even a cursory glance at the quality of these groups' performances proves that Tufts has more than enough talent to go around. Nowhere is this truer than with a cappella groups. This weekend the newest on-campus a cappella group, S-Factor, will perform their first official concert, showing that, if anything, Tufts is only gaining more talented performers. The new group will be performing with Essence in Alumnae lounge on Saturday. The concert will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the campus center.
-compiled by Sarah Cowan and Gregory Connor
