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Campus Activities Council continues its Student Film Series with the third annual Student Film Festival. The festival will be held in the Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on March 1. 

                CAC created the film series to give students a chance to showcase their creative writing and film directing skills to a small-scale audience. It also gives students the chance to have their scripts critiqued by professionals from OU’s film department.

                “I’m really excited to enter the film festival. It’s always been something I’ve been interested in, but never really had the chance to do before,” said Kristen Stanley, a freshman energy management major.

                According to ou.edu, to enter the Film Series, current OU students must create an original script and film less than 15 minutes long. The films are then reviewed by CAC Film Series Chair Sarah Foust, checked for length and any obscenity and are selected for the Student Film Festival.

                “The number of films to make it to the festival has varied every year. Last year I believe we had seven or eight, but it just depends on the length or if any get disqualified for obscenity,” said Foust.

                New to the Film series this year, the winners of the festival will have their film displayed on the OU website.

                Winners of the festival are chosen by a panel of judges who score each film based on its creativity, technique, equipment use and story line.

                “I think the added incentives to the festival will be encouraging to students to get their work out there, especially for freshman and sophomores. Showing their films to a smaller audience will hopefully give them the courage to eventually enter larger film festivals held nationally and even internationally,” said Foust.

                All contest rules and entry forms are available on ou.edu on the CAC homepage.