Today 2012 MSFF panel member Dan Lindsay (left) met with MSFF director Jerry LaBuy (right) about this year's fest and what the future holds for the MSFF. Things are just about set for the film judging, as all films must be submitted by June 16th, 2012.
Dan will be out-of-the country working on something great the weekend of this year's MSFF, however we are cooking up something very cool with him to show everyone at the fest! He also said he really enjoyed watching the films as a judge last year and is looking forward to it again this year!
Come see all of the selected student films this year at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2012 event which is on August 4th, 2012!!
They are the three Rockford, IL area students who produced this year's TV ad for MSFF 2012!
Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2012 Promo from Mosaic Film Project on Vimeo.
It is now posted on our vimeo page and we'll be sending it out to TV stations and hopefully you'll see it at the area movie theatres as well. Thanks again guys, it looks great!
Filmmaker and Mosaic Student Film Festival panel member Dan Lindsay is a Rockford, IL native who won an Oscar this year! Here's a picture after the big win (L-R Producer: Rich Middlemas, Director: TJ Martin, and Director: Dan Lindsay Inset: Dan Lindsay)
He co-directed the film entitled "Undefeated", which is a documentary about the Manassas Tigers 2009 football season. They followed the team as they attempt to win their first playoff game in the school's entire history.
Congratulations to him! Please check our panel page for all the details on Dan and our full 2012 event.
This year's donation levels and giveaways have been listed! By supporting MSFF with your donation, you'll help sustain a culture of great films and filmmakers and the continual discovery of bold new ideas and diverse perspectives from the stateline, country, and around the globe.
Please check our 2012 MSFF sponsor page for all the details.
Help us put on our fest and support student filmmakers!
The 2012 Mosaic Student Film Festival is now accepting all submissions for our 5th annual event. Please check our 2012 MSFF submission page for all the details. We're looking forward to screening your work!
Better start filming as the MSFF will open submissions on January 15th! Full details and all submission info will be available here on that day: MSFF submission page.
The 2012 festival (our 5th annual!) will once again be held at the Rockford Theatre in Rockford, IL. You can keep up to date on festival details by joining our facebook event page. Make sure to invite any and all that may want to be included in the event!
Last year we had over 135 submissions and were able to screen 2 hours worth of great student films. This year we will post on our page not only the films screened at the festival, but a select number of films that just missed the cut. We will also have full filmmaker profiles on their creators, just as we do with the selected films.
So get to filming and then send us your film!
Check out the WTVO Channel 17 Morning News this Wednesday, August 3rd. MSFF Director Jerry LaBuy will be live outside the Rockford Theatre talking about the big event on the 6th!
MSFF Director Jerry LaBuy will be a guest on 13 News Today this Monday, August 1st. He will be talking about the upcoming event and the great student films that will be shown there. Make sure to check it out!
Your College or High School: Columbia College - Chicago
Your Hometown: Rockford, IL
Who are your film influences? Edgar Wright, Christopher Nolan, Kevin Smith.
What was the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? Kyle: N/A David: The Lion King!
What is your favorite movie and why? I have to go with Return of the Jedi. Perhaps it's just because I'm a geek, but the original trilogy were some of the first films I remember watching, and I've always been partial to Return.
What are you doing/working on this summer? I'm working on producing and directing a short action film in Rockford called Circuit Breakers.
What was your inspiration for the film? I think my inspiration for "so..." just came from the stuff that happens to everyone all the time. I wanted to show how poetic and how chaotic life could get during even the most mundane of activities, and I wanted to show that even between good friends, long pauses are inevitable.
Come see Zach's film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Your College or High School: Rock Valley College//Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Your Hometown: Rockford, IL
Who are your film influences? Anything and everything.
What was the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? Kyle: N/A David: The Lion King!
What is your favorite movie and why? Kyle: n/a / David: Too many to name only one.
What are you doing/working on this summer? Writing short films, shooting spots for Culture Shock/Winnebago Buy Local, and getting ready to transfer down to SIU.
What was your inspiration for the film? We wanted to tell a story about two of our good friends that are doing something productive and interesting in Rockford, IL.
Come see Kyle and David's film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Your College or High School: Rock Valley College
Your hometown: South Beloit, IL
Who are your film influences? I admire any films by Darren Aronofsky, Richard Kelly, and Derek Cianfrance.
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? 'Homeward Bound' (1993)
What is your favorite movie and why? Both 'Donnie Darko' and 'Requiem for a Dream' are my favorite movies.
What are you doing/working on this summer? Currently I am taking the summer off, but will return to RVC in the fall to finish my Mass Communication certificate.
What was your inspiration for the film? I find perfection in simplicity and aimed to create a film that humbled the senses and returned to the place where true beauty really lies.
Come see Catt's film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Sara Garcia
Your College or High School: Rock Valley College / Rochester Institute of Technology
Your Hometown: Belvidere, IL / Los Angeles, CA
Who are your film influences? Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Royal Tenenbaums.
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? Aladdin
What is your favorite movie and why? Definitely a toss-up between Mars Attacks and The Royal Tenenbaums. Mars Attacks is one of my favorites because of the chaos and the style in the movie. It's very bright and bold with the wardrobe being from what people in the 60's and 70's would call "modern." The Royal Tenenbaums is the other because it's a story about a family that's more dysfunctional than my own, while reminding me of my own family in subtle ways.
What are you doing/working on this summer? Working at Journey's in the mall, assisting Travis Legge on Legacy of the Masque and trying to figure out a way to visit Rochester, NY before school starts back up.
What was your inspiration for the film? My own personal inspiration was that being a kid was way too easy when I went through it. Now we have things (technology) that make us grow up faster. We can see what people are talking about and doing, and then we can put two and two together and realize, "Oh, they told me they were sick and now they're at so-and-so's house." On top of it all, it was just a much simpler time when I was a kid compared to now. Although, I'm pretty sure that's what most, if not all, of the previous generation is saying about us.
Catt Garcia
Your College or High School: Rock Valley College
Your hometown: South Beloit, IL
Who are your film influences? I admire any films by Darren Aronofsky, Richard Kelly, and Derek Cianfrance.
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? 'Homeward Bound' (1993)
What is your favorite movie and why? Both 'Donnie Darko' and 'Requiem for a Dream' are my favorite movies.
What are you doing/working on this summer? Currently I am taking the summer off, but will return to RVC in the fall to finish my Mass Communication certificate.
What was your inspiration for the film? I find perfection in simplicity and aimed to create a film that humbled the senses and returned to the place where true beauty really lies.
Come see Sara and Catt's film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event.!
Your College or High School: Hononegah High School
Your Hometown: Roscoe, IL
Who are your film influences? Bit of everything
What was the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? Honestly I can't remember, It was probably like Hercules or something like that.
What is your favorite movie and why? Currently, The Usual Suspects. I am really in film for the story telling, and I love how this film wraps it all together in the end. You never suspect who Keiser Soze is.
What are you doing/working on this summer? Cinematics (my high school filmmaking group) is on summer break, but most of the group is involved in Evil Plot Productions. We've been working on a few skits and refining our skills.
What was your inspiration for the film? I think we were all thinking about freshman year of high school, and the school was a location we could use and it all came together from there.
Come see Phil's film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Tom Doherty
Your College or High School: Rock Valley College
Your hometown: Rockford, IL
Who are your film influences? Early Shyamalan films, Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter's Halloween
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? I don't know what the first one was, but I remember seeing movies as early as 1994 with Little Women when I was 4, Pebble and the Penguin in 1995 and Muppet's Treasure Island 1996.
What is your favorite movie and why? There are so many great movies, that this is an impossible question for me to answer. Too many different genres, too many movies that are great for entertainment purposes, and too many movies that are great for reasons pertaining to art. I don't have a favorite movie, I just can't boil it down to one.
What are you doing/working on this summer? I'm taking a summer class at Rock Valley called Motion Picture Production. Its a film class over the summer where we make short films! I directed the all class project "Operation: Search and Destroy" and was/am the Assistant Director/Grip/Editor for a small group project called "Verbatim". Both are currently in post-production and should be finished by August 4th-ish. I was also a Key Grip for a 48 hour film project, called "Earth Song", which I hope will be online shortly.
What was your inspiration for the film?
Skies & City Lights - Jayson and I wanted to experiment with time lapses because we had never done one before. We had seen some awesome ones online and loved the idea of taking long exposures of city lights.
Documentary - We wanted to document the Pro-Life community here in Rockford.
Jayson Phommavongsa
Your College or High School: Rock Valley College
Your hometown: Rockford, Illinois
Who are your film influences? Alfred Hitchcock, Lasse Hallstrom, and Christopher Nolan
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? This is probably way back when I was 5 years old watching some American with Thai translation. And
this is when I lived in Thailand. I believe my first film were Toy Story.
What is your favorite movie and why? My favorite movie so far is Inception
What are you doing/working on this summer? I am currently taking a summer course at Rock Valley called Motion Picture Production. It's
a film class over the summer where my classmate and I make short films! During this course, I was chosen to be in charge of post-production in audio work & music scores for our class film called, Operation: Search and Destroy and running a position as Cinematographer for a small group's film called, Verbatim. Both are still in post-production.
Come see Tom and Jayson's films and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Your College or High School: Columbia College - Chicago
Your Hometown: Batavia, IL
Who are your film influences? Rian Johnson, Sergio Leone, Guillermo del Toro, David Lynch
What was the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? "Pocahontas"
What is your favorite movie and why? "Brick", because of its unique style and creative writing.
What are you doing/working on this summer? I am currently writing a feature-length film to shoot over the next year.
What was your inspiration for the film? The film was inspired by the subject of dreams and their meanings.
Come see Michael's film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Your College or High School: HUNTINGTON UNIVERSITY
Your Hometown: ROSCOE, IL
Who are your film influences? PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, CHRIS NOLAN, KELLY LYNCH, STEVEN SODERBERGH, MARTIN SCORSESE, ALFRED HITCHCOCK
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER, IT WAS LION KING.
What is your favorite movie and why? THERE WILL BE BLOOD. THROUGH IT, ONE CAN SEE HOW GREED AND PRIDE ARE TRULY THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS WORLD.
What are you doing/working on this summer? MAKING MOVIES, HELPING OUT AT VARIOUS CAMPS, BABYSITTING, AND FREELANCE VIDEO WORK.
What was your inspiration for the film? I CAN'T REALLY GIVE A CONCISE ANSWER TO THAT. I BOUNCED AROUND IDEAS WITH THE HELP OF SEVERAL PEOPLE AND THE STORY KEPT DEVELOPING INTO WHAT IT IS NOW.
Come see his film and all of the selected student films at the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event!
Submissions are now closed for the Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 event. Thank you for all the great films that have been submitted. We will send word to the filmmakers whether they have been selected on or around July 15th. Thanks for giving us our highest number of submissions ever this year!
We have some news on our judging panel for this year's event. Filmmaker and Rockford-native Daniel Lindsay has agreed to be a panel member for Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011!
This rounds out our panel which will also include filmmakers Corbyn Tyson and Bing Liu. We will have all of our panel member information and bios up on the website soon here.
To all our student filmmakers: remember that our submission deadline is June 17th, 2011!!
...for putting together such a great promo video for MSFF 2011!
Mosaic Student Film Festival - 2011 Promo from Mosaic Film Project on Vimeo.
We'll be sending it out to TV stations and hopefully you'll see it at the area movie theatres as well. Thanks again guys, it looks great!
Some talented student filmmakers are working on a PSA to help get the word out there about MSFF 2011. As soon as they're finished we'll have it on here and our Vimeo page. Here's a sample of what they're up to!
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