CIFF
Attention all student filmmakers!
The 8th Annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented student filmmakers for this year's competition.
Submission is free!
Submission deadline: March 1, 2021
Email your submission to ciff@cornell.edu. YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, etc., are accepted.
Submission Guidelines
- Any narrative, documentary, or experimental student films
- Films must be 20 minutes or less in length
- Maximum two submissions per person
Submission Checklist
Email a link to your submission to ciff@cornell.edu with the following materials and information:
- Film title
- Your name
- Link to film and password, if the link is private
- Category that most closely describes your film (Narrative, Documentary, Experimental)
- Email address
- Phone number
- Institution
- Degree Program (BA, BFA, MFA, or MA/PhD)
- Graduation year
- How you heard about the Centrally Isolated Film Festival
Cash Prizes:
1st place (per category): $200
Selected films will be screened online from April 22–30, 2021 at bit.ly/centrallyisolatedfilmfestival.
The Centrally Isolated Film Festival seeks to bring together student filmmakers from universities and colleges in the Northeast. For more information, please contact:
Student Organizer:
- TBA
Faculty Advisor:
- Sabine Haenni (sh322@cornell.edu)
List of CIFF Awardees
2021 Awardees
Best Narrative Film
The Bag—Sam Azghandi, Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: Remember Me in Therapy—Jacob Mollot, Ithaca College
Best Documentary Film
What An Ivy League Restaurant Taught Me About Success—Ryan Ng
Honorable Mention: Jornada—Mary Conlon, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Best Experimental Film
Bibi Amir—Zelikha Zohra Shoja, Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: Pictorial Abstraction—Nick Rockwood, Binghamton University
Audience Award
Winner: La Cena Italiana—Alex Chu, Colgate University
Honorable Mention: Panto—Justin d'Emilio, Ithaca College
2020 Awardees
Best Documentary
The Butterfly Effect—Jeremy Coyle, Cornell University
Best Narrative Film
Distant Interiors—Kieu-Anh Truong, Syracuse University
Best Experimental Film (tie)
In Transit—Ruby Que and Iyanah Bativala, Cornell University
Untitled—Wanrong Zhen, Syracuse University
Audience Award
정리해 (Make it Clean)—Nicholas (Nick) Fletcher, Sergio Muñoz, and Hyunjun (Alex) Ryu, Syracuse University
2019 Awardees
Best Documentary
Ms. Jackson—Nate Bellavia, Rochester Institute of Technology
Best Narrative Film
an American family—Kieu-Anh Truong, Syracuse Universiity
Best Experimental Film
CRW no. 1—Katiana Weems, Syracuse University
Audience Award
XXX—Danial Khan, Syracuse University
2018 Awardees
Best Documentary
DACAmented—St. Clair Detrick-Jules, Brown University
Best Narrative Film
O.B. and the Galactic Three in: The Staff of Funk—Evan Montgomery, Ithaca College
Best Experimental Film
Building Room—Claire G. McClusky, Ithaca College
Audience Award
ZVOOV—Lee Manor, SUNY Purchase
2017 Awardees
Best Documentary
Pig—Holly McHahon, Rochester Institute of Technology
Best Narrative Film
What Comes From a Swamp—Tyler Macri, Ithaca College
Best Experimental Film
Astral Migrant—Emilio Seri, City College of New York
Audience Award
Let's Rob a Fucking House—Casey Creveling, Ithaca College
2016 Awardees
Best Narrative Film
How They Fall—Tyler Macri, Ithaca College
Best Documentary Film
Paul's Ride—Benjamin Davis, SUNY Purchase
Best Experimental Film
Trash Fever—Kristi Gogos, Ithaca College
2014–15 Awardees
Best Narrative Film
Pluto—Christopher Maher, Ithaca College
Best Documentary Film
Beats of the Southern Style—Samantha Yu and Adam Mantell, Ithaca College
Best Experimental Film
Burn After Viewing—Daniel Torres, Cornell University
Audience Award
Kids Making Things Happen—Jake Geller and Jesse Kreuzer, Cornell University
2013 Awardees
Best Film
Winter Rye—Victoria DeMartin, SUNY Purchase
Best Screenplay
The Playground—Rachel Ellicott, Cornell University