By Lauren Akselrod
Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
Salmagundi, the Film and Media Society's annual film festival, will give University students something that won't let their eyes wander tonight.
"This is a chance to give local film makers a chance to screen their work to the public and get something back from the work they put into their films," said fourth-year College student Carlos Marulando, the president of FMS.
FMS is an organization for people who are interested in making and editing films.
"We are here to encourage students to explore film as a form of art or as a media of expression," Marulando said.
The club sponsors several projects throughout the year, but the Salmagundi show is their biggest one.
This year, Apple Computers is sponsoring the event, and one filmmaker will win a computer. Marulando said that the deciding jury, consisting of Richard Herskowitz, the director of the Virginia Film Festival, Temple Fennel, the president of ATO films and Paul Wagner, a local documentary film maker, will be "completely unbiased."
Although FMS received 35 submissions to the festival this year, only 14 of the films will be screened.
"We look for originality, creativity and technical characteristics in the films that we choose," Marulando said. "We try to show a bit of everything."
The festival's screenings also are not censored.
"Whether it's violence, nudity or bad words, we don't ask people to take parts out if they are justified in using them," Marulando said. "Short films tend to be more risky, wacky, abstract and experimental."
And according to Marulando, anyone has the potential for making films.
"We basically want to make people aware of how powerful and assessable filmmaking is," Marulando said. "It's something you learn by hands-on experience. So instead of lecturing about it, we just give people a crash course and send them out with a camera."
The festival will be held tonight and Wednesday at 7:30 in the Newcomb Hall Theatre.
"You'll be surprised at some of the things you'll see," Marulando said. "And they've all been done here in Charlottesville." found at her College Campaign for Organ Donation post. "I wish it worked."
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