For those attending the festival tonight, we have some information for you.
The location for parking is the “Cone Deck”. Cone Deck is right off of University Road. There is a parking cost which we could not get for free. We apologize about this, please bring cash with you!
The weather is looking bad tonight. Please be careful when coming to McKnight Hall!
If you have any questions, please email awatki29@uncc.edu for more information. See you there!
Reminder: Doors open at 6. Starts promptly at 7pm. We will have an intermission during the festival.
Starring Aaron Paul? Yes, please. The first trailer I saw for this film was not entirely impressive in my opinion. I had a preconceived notion that this would simply be another car movie with a sub par plot, and in some way I was right but there was a little more to it.
Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) is a prominent figure in the illegal street racing world, and when his life is turned upside down (no pun intended), he is compelled to take a ride down memory lane (OK, that’s the last one I promise).
I won’t beat around the bush; this film is insanely predictable. You can almost pinpoint which scene you’ll see next. The characters are exactly what you would believe them to be, and the story line follows a route that many films have already…
We would like to welcome you to the Queen City…Charlotte, North Carolina! The UNC Charlotte Film Club is so excited that you have picked our fair city to film your latest awesome picture, Tusk, to film in. My name is Patrick (Vice President of the UNCC Film Club) and I am a huge fan of your work. I have listened to your talks for years and my favorite film of yours is Red State.
Your talks, podcasts, films…pretty much if you made a brand of butter we would be at the grocery store on day one to purchase it. I would buy the entire supply and rent a U-Haul to take to one our meetings. We would eat it for hours upon hours and then share the rest of our supply with strangers on the street. Silent Bob Butter would be so good it would give us all time travel powers and we would go back in time and buy the exact same butter supply before ourselves creating a rip in the space time continuum!
We would rip a hole in space and time itself for you. That is how much we love you dear sir.
Currently we are forming our own Justice League of Avengers from all over Mecklenburg County to call upon on you. We have a simple request. We would love for you to come and speak to us. If you just have five minutes to talk like Bane for us, we will sit our behinds down and listen. If we could even see you (we are not too creepy, we promise) we would appreciate it for years to come. We will do anything…well not anything, but things within reason. You want a pumpkin spice latte? We got it.
If not, that’s completely fine. Our small but dedicated group would still be there on day one to watch Tusk and whatever you do in the future.
Good luck on the film and we hope you continue your awesomeness throughout the universe!
WALRUS YES! KEVIN YES!
The UNC Charlotte Film Club and Patrick Wisniewski
Captain Phillips establishes himself as the main source of authority on his ship, while his crew is having a hard time adjusting to his strict persona. They soon flock to him for words of wisdom as four Somalian pirates board the ship in search for a big loot.
This film will have you on the edge of your seat for the entire duration of the movie. Phillips plays the good guy, attempting to give into the pirates’ wants in order to secure his crew’s safety. The pirates each have their own personalities, one being a hotheaded gunslinger, one being a young teen that you almost want to empathize with, and the other ‘captain’ in the story who desperately wants complete control. Of course things go awry and a chain of events are set in motion which pull the audience in…
Instafestival is here! We’re hosting a fall festival for Vine, Instagram, and smartphone videos! How awesome is that?!?!
Categories:
Instagram
Vine
Smartphone Video (Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, etc.)**
Submissions start NOW!The deadline for submissions for the festival is November 3 at 11:59 PM. The Festival will be held on November 13th, 6:30PM in the Student Union Movie Theater. If you make it into the festival, your admission is free. If you’d like to come to the festival the admission price is $3 per person (Groups of 5 people are $12, Groups of 10 are $20). This money will help fund the upcoming Film Festival in the Spring, as well as provide UNC-Charlotte with awesome events like these!
Rules:
You may submit up to 10 videos (each may be for a different category, for example, 4 Vine, 4 Instagram, 2 smartphone)
All videos submitted must not be altered in any way OUTSIDE of the apps. You can use filters, but nothing more.
All videos must have a PG-13 rating or LOWER.
No nudity, excessive profanity, sexual acts, gore, or illegal acts in the videos. Blood is allowed, as long as no one is actually hurt in the video.
BE CREATIVE! Try not to use the same acts that are popular. For example, Gangnam Style is not original. Don’t do it.
**Smartphone videos are limited to 20 seconds and must not be altered in any program that creates special effects or adding other videos.
Judging will be based on creativity, comedy (if it applies), and originality (yes, creativity and originality are different things).
How do I submit?
Submissions must be tagged with @unccfilm in the comments of your video. Instagram and Vine are set up so that UNCCFilm can be tagged. If you have a smartphone video, you can upload it to YouTube and/or email the link to watkinsproduction@gmail.com.
Who can submit?
Anyone can submit if they’re in the local Charlotte area! Not just UNC Charlotte students can submit, but we’re opening up to others who would like to participate as well!
The top 3 in each category will be featured in this year’s 6th annual UNC-Charlotte Short Film Festival!
The festival is approaching fast and to give you time to plan out your great weekend we have generously included all of the information you will need to see everything at the short film festival this april 27th.
Date: Saturday April 27th
Schedule:
5:00 pm We will be having a live read of the three winners from the screenwriting competition in Cone Center, After Hours.
6:30 pm Doors open in Mcknight Hall for the screening.
7:00 pm The screening begins in Cone Center, Mcknight Hall.
10:00pm Award ceremony in Mcknight Hall.
Questions.
Q:Will there be food?
-Of course! The Herban Legend food truck will be stationed outside Cone Center for the duration of the festival.
Q:Where do I park?
-Below is a link to a map where you can find both the Cone Center and the Cone deck for your parking convenience.
Q: what will I get out of this?
-You will get to watch some great short films and have a chance to win free stuff like gift cards to The Last word.
Q:How much does this cost?
-It will cost you nothing! The festival is free admission. We do encourage you to bring money to spend on food at The Herban Legend as they have graciously agreed to hang out with us for the whole festival.
Q:How awesome will the films be?
-Extremely awesome.
Q:This sounds great! What’s the catch?
-There is none! The Film department and the UNCC film club have worked extremely hard this year to make the best possible event for one afternoon and now we want to share that with the Charlotte community. so please come out and enjoy this great event with us.
Christmas has come early for classic film buffs. Specifically it is this weekend, because Hulu is streaming a huge chunk of criterion collection films exclusively this weekend for free. As with anything free and movie related, film club is all over this opportunity. Have no doubt that we will be pushing back all papers and projects in favor of watching these amazing films. To help you sort through the many films on this list and find ones that you have to watch this weekend we’ve posted a list of what we will likely be watching.
1. Seven Samurai
Of course we are going to start with seven samurai. It is The Movie. It is also a great film for those of you who don’t watch a lot of foreign films (or old films). The story is about seven samurai (duh) who are hired to protect a village of poor farmers from a ruthless group of bandits. There are so many amazing things about this film but my favorite is actually the acting. The samurai in this film are some of the most iconic characters in all of story telling and when their story ends you are truly left wanting to see more of them.
2. A Woman Under the Influence
We bring it back to english (and color) for the next film on the list. The first sentence of the imdb description says it pretty well: Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her madness proves to be a problem in the marriage. Don’t be fooled by this movie, the opening scene may have you think it is a simple story but it is anything but. Not only should every film student watch this, but any one who has a slight interest in any of the following: women’s studies, psychology, sociology, life.
3. Stagecoach
Have you ever seen a John Wayne Film? If you have, then I shouldn’t have to tell you to watch this movie. If you haven’t then you will have to start with stagecoach. The western planes the cowboy medium shots. It’s how american cinema grew into what it is today. Heres the imdb lowdown: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo.
4. Breathless
Breathless is of course this authors favorite film of all time so it is a given that it would be on the list. The film tells the story of a car thief on the run who comes to paris to ask an old lover out on a date and ends up falling in love with her. Breathless is a french film made right at the beginning of the New Wave. I love this film mostly because the themes are sex and violence, the shots have a lot of motion(and emotion) and the dialog is very precise and powerful.
5. Down by Law
If you only ever watch one Jim Jarmush movie, let it be down by Law. Imdb describes this movie very simply in a nutshell: The story of three different men in a Louisiana prison and their eventual journey. This movie is last on the list because it does move a bit slower(that is compared to mainstream hollywood not criterion standards). This is a movie about great character, however, and it has some of the best lines in any movie and also some of the best humor for a “dramatic” film.
Those are our favorites. Let us know what you will be watching this weekend.
UNCC is now accepting film submissions for the short film festival which will take place saturday April 27th. The submission deadline is March 28th so please head over to the festival page of our site to read all the guidelines for each category and download the submission form. (please note: the submission form for short screenplay will be released at a later date). You do not have to be a student or be affiliated with the school to submit and the festival is free to submit and attend!
This year’s festival will be our fifth year running and the organizers are all planning on making it the biggest festival to date. So be sure to get your submissions in by the deadline.
You can direct any further questions to our club president.
Film Club at UNC Charlotte 