Two MSU students' documentaries honored in East Lansing Film Festival
http://elff.com Elizabeth DeCesare; Senior; HPS: History, philosophy and sociology of science (Lymann Briggs major) Took a senior seminar within the Lyman Briggs college and we had to create a film of our choice...something controversial sort of debunking it (or a thirty day project where you “lived the life” "I am honored. Being a part of that movie building experience and having someone watch your film and find some meaning out of it is great.” “Obviously social media is a huge part of our lives, but to let it take over our lives is where we have conflict." “This is a great opportunity to give students sort of this leg up in the East Lansing community. It’s so exciting that our student film was chosen and that they thought it was a new and upcoming topic that people would be interested in.” Her and three others and put into a group in the seminar Michelle Abraham...digital editor Ashley Staley...cinematographer Bartosz Gawarecki....MOF Director (Making of our Film) LB 492....Run by Dr. Luckie Had to submit the film to the festival as a requirement Took this class over the summer...found out in August or beginning of September On top of doing the experiment, we did a vlog everyday about what they were feeling and the impact of not using our social media and you can really see our progression which is really fascinating (not unbearable, to having really bad days where we need “you can really see the progression which is really fascinating because we go from being fine within the first couple of days, to having horrible days where we needed to contact other people. And how the impact of not At the end of the film we challenge people to put their phones away, go outside and do something “Obviously social media is a huge part of our lives, but to let it take over our lives is where we have conflict. I see people today who can’t sit at a dinner with their friends without checking their phone five times.” 15 days without social media...took us about 2.5 weeks to put it together Had to build a trailer for the film as well I thought that I got really lucky with my group...we worked together beautiful everyone brought together all of their knowledge to build this film into what it became. I used to do plays and musicals since I was young as I can remember. And that has always been a love of mine. Movies are something that that my family and me really enjoy and are captivated by. To be able to be a part of that movie building experience is great. Hoping to go to graduate and become a speech pathologist....maybe in recreational film. That would be really cool. Syazana Amirulmokminin; Senior; Media and information; Concentration in film, radio, TV also studying Anthropology as well My film is about race and identity...how people identify themselves like for Asian-Americans, whether they identify as Asian or American and how their family and the community has affected this 5-minutes, short documentary Spring semester...taking senior research methods class for anthropology so it was a 400 level class...have to do research paper and interview people and decided to do a documentary Entered into a lot film festivals...got rejected by a ton. Got accepted into the East Lansing Film Festival, the Made in Michigan Film Festival, and the Philadelphia Asian America Film Festival (sponsors are Comcast and HBO) "I've always been interested in photography, but I don't like taking still pictures. I wanted to do something more dynamic I guess." “It’s really weird for me because I have not been doing this for a long time. All of this kind of just fell into my lap.” I want to go into the film industry so it might help with that "For me, it's just about getting a feel for what the industry is like, specifically the what the culture of these film festivals is like. It feels awesome and overwhelming, but this opportunity inspires me to improve." Saw how people interacted with each other with different races and classes...born in Singapore, came to the US when she was 9 or 10 years old
