2016 Adelphi Film and Video Festival a Great Success

Award Winning Adelphi Comm Department Young Filmmakers celebrate their achievements,
joined by Professors Joan Stein and Terrence Ross.

The 46th annual Adelphi Film and Video Festival was a big success on Thursday evening, May 12. It took place at the PAC on campus and included a rich diversity of films and filmmakers. There were many audience favorites, including Sam Bedard’s Strangers, Ruby Tang’s animated This Cat Lives One Life, Donnell Jone’s music video The Sky is D-Limitz, and Vinny Caracciolo’s Hamlet Rap, which brought the house down. There were strong narratives (Ben Nichol’s Chaos Theory, Michael McGavin’s Withdrawals), experimental narrative (Sam Ambrosio’s Self Reflection, Ana Karely Maldonado’s Jolie, Gerard Jewel’s The Film Room), and moving documentary and journalism (Daniel McElroy’s Art in Cuba, Jonathan Cajas’s We Continue to Live, and Thomas Gonzalez’s Our Playground is the Universe).

It was an excellent evening of digital and cinematic storytelling and the department is proud of the students who put in the work to make it happen.

Everyone who was part of the evening was a winner. The alumni judges (Michael Weinstein, Robby Lucia, and Mara Bush) had a difficult task but came up with the evening’s awards.

First Prize (Best Film)  - Daniel McElroy for Art in Cuba

Second Prize (Second Best Film) - Ben Nichol’s Chaos Theory

The Audience Choice Award - Sam Bedard for Strangers

Best Editing -  Daniel McElroy for Art in Cuba

Best Screenplay - Sam Ambrosio for Self-Reflection 

Best Soundtrack - Donnell Jones for The Sky is D-Limitz

Best Actor - Jamie Geiger (Chaos Theory)

Best Actress - Courtney Torres (Reckless) 

Best Cinematography - Mike McGavin for Withdrawal

Daniel McElroy won the Best Film and Best Editing awards for his documentary Art in Cuba.

Michael McGavin accepts the award for Best Cinematography for
 he is film Withdrawals.

Sam Ambrosio accepts the Best Screenplay award for his film Self-Reflection from the 

Alumni Judges and Professor Ross and Professor Stein.

Sam Bedard accepts the Audience Choice Award for her film Strangers.

Filmmaker and Musician Donnell Jones and the D-Limitz crew after the screenings.

Professor Terrence Ross mingles with students and family.

Filmmakers Anthony Clemente, Deanna Dubinsky, Michael Ashe O'Toole, Shannen Murphy and Andrew Ryan mix it up after the screenings.