Oscar Night

Posted by Nicholas Beckman in Film

At 4:30 pm, March 2, students, faculty and contributing members of the SFUAD Film School gathered at the Screen to view the short films creating during 2013 Shoot the Stars event.

“I had only played shorts in front of an audience on two previous occasions and the scary thing about that is how immediately you know what people thought,” said Joshua James, a junior film student and director/invisible cat wrangler for the film Mister Stapleton. According to James, the screening went well despite nerves from the cast and crew.

“The fact that the laughs kept coming is what really brought me to think, “Okay. We did it.””

Following the screening was a red carpet event inside Stage C at the Garson Studios, equipped with photographers, coat-checks, free champagne, hors d’oeuvres and even a silent auction. The theme for the night was “The Great Gatsby,” gathering flappers and tuxes, white dresses with champagne and fast-talkers circa 1925. Gypsy jazz band The Laser Cats performed during the event, bringing contemporary jazz and bluegrass into a refined and elegant setting.

A large LCD screen displayed the live Oscar coverage on the red carpet in both Stage C, as well as at The Screen. As the start of the Oscars drew closer, more and more film buffs made their way from the complimentary food and drink to the big-screen viewing of the most celebrated night in the movie industry.

From professional film directors to striving student artists and collaborators, the Oscars event at the Film School gave a bevy of film students the opportunity to mingle and boast about the movies in which they all had the opportunity to participate. Whether they were directing, acting, setting up lights or running to get coffee, the Oscars night is an event that represents not only the art of storytelling, but the eclectic range of people that comprise the entire process.