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We’re back (to school) with more virtual screenings for you! Season 3 is more of a “mini season”, focusing on the theme of “Back to School”, which happens to be the situation for many people this time of the year. With our present circumstances though, many have mixed feelings about how this online semester will go, many are wandering in a fog of uncertainty, and many are revisiting who they are and what they want to be. In the midst of all this, what we at CFS can help you do is to give you the collective experience of living vicariously through the lives of characters on screen who can at best alleviate this sense of isolation, and at worst act as a momentary distraction. These are characters and stories with worries and woes, joys and hopes - only in a different time, in a different place, and in a different world. We hope you’ll join us along on this ride, and we hope it’ll be a fun one. 🏫🎒✏️ Films to be screened: 🚍January 23: Eighth Grade (2018, Dir. Bo Burnham, Netflix) 📚: January 30: Booksmart (2019, Dir. Olivia Wilde, Amazon Prime Video) Layout design by @keyashirali
Here’s a sneak peek into our selection for Season 2, where we follow the theme of “Love”. Running from October 16 to November 13, this collection explores the nuances of human connection. Most people misidentify “love” with “romance”, and while they’re not completely wrong, love can mean a host of other things within the human spectrum of emotion. It’s the charm yet wonderment of bonding with someone who is from a completely different world from yours, like in Roman Holiday. It’s the magic of finding true connection in a stranger in the strangest of ways, like in Before Sunrise. Sometimes, it looks a little different altogether. Sometimes, it means defying the expectations that society laid out for you regarding who you can and cannot love and persevering through it, like in The Half of It. Other times, “love” is coupled with “loss”, where grievance brings people closer than they could ever imagine, as portrayed in the familial love depicted in The Farewell. We hope you fall in “love” with this series, and join us in our weekly viewings this season! 💗 🍿 Films featured this season: October 16: The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020, Netflix) October 23: Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953, Prime Video) November 6: The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019, Prime Video) November 13: Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995, Prime Video)
A few days ago, we released our exclusive interview with filmmaker Sam Ogunremi (@samogunremi), which you can find on our IGTV! Here’s one of his inspiring quotes from the interview. Sam’s photo courtesy of @bea.villadelgado and layout design by @keyashirali
We now have a Discord too! To join our server, click the link in our bio! 🖥 Layout design by @keyashirali
Cinema has always been a driver of change, culture, and revolution in more ways than you think. From various ideologies depicted on screen through artful propaganda, to true-to-life documentary practices that strove for realism, as nearly impossible as that may be to achieve. Writing and storytelling in film are now more revolutionized than ever and for the better - from more complex characterization and storylines for people of colour instead of the cardboard-cutout tropes established long ago by the industry’s antiquated giants, to a more diverse set of creatives behind the camera, be it as screenwriters, directors, producers, and so much more. But we’re still not there yet. There’s still a long way to go, a lot of work to do, a lot to educate ourselves about. Which is why we’re beginning the film screenings of our first season with the theme of “Resistance”. To acknowledge the hardship, vicariously live through the fight, and celebrate the cinematic expression of what power, change, and revolution truly mean, and maybe change its meaning entirely. 🎞 🍿 Films featured in the post: • September 14: Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020) • September 21: Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019) • September 28: If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) • October 5: 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016)
Link in bio! New piece by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) up on Medium! 🔪
Did you know that we also have an alternate logo designed by Jocelyn Wright (@jocelyn_wright789)? You’ll be seeing quite a bit of it too! This week, we’re launching another project for you cinephiles, so keep an eye out for that!
Link in bio! New piece by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali)! 👻
Link in bio! A new piece by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) 🖊
❗️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: If you, or someone you know, might be interested in the opportunity of volunteering for any of these positions, please contact Beatrice @bea.villadelgado soon!
{Article link in bio} NEW ORDER OF BUSINESS: We’re launching our own independent online publication on Medium (@medium)! Inspired by and modelled on the likes of IndieWire, Taste of Cinema, and more, we aspire to bring interesting, thought provoking, and downright entertaining pieces for you on a biweekly basis (that’s twice a week if you were wondering). Our first piece was written by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) and is the first of many within a series we’re producing called Horror Stories - pieces that are all about the horror genre, scary movies, and whatever gives you cinematic chills down your spine. Do zombie movies reveal the ugliness of humankind? Can you actually learn anything about colonization or social media obsession from a zombie flick? Find out more and show us some love by clicking on the link in our bio to read this article!
For the first time in the history of this club’s existence, and in adapting with the nature of current times, all film choices for screenings this year will be curated as per their availability on video on-demand services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Kanopy, MUBI etc. Not willing to pay for too many services? Many of the ones we’ll suggest will either be free, or have trial periods where you can watch unlimited content free of cost for typically a month. Just cause we can’t all meet in person doesn’t mean we can’t have the shared experience of relishing in a well-made film, right? Keep an eye out for more. In the meantime, like our Facebook page too if you’d like (link in bio). 📽 💻🖥
In the past few years, and up until just a few months ago, the CFS team was made up of only three executive team members. Today, we’ve doubled that number to six executive core team members, and after much expanding and restructuring, our designated roles comprise of creative art direction, procurement, projects, logistics, production, finance, and so much more. Here are the faces of the people behind CFS today, and for the next few months to come. 🍿 📸 Featured in the image: @keyashirali @ashleybibbyy @bea.villadelgado @jocelyn_wright789 @stephhubert @faithinwander
Since we’re aspiring to restructure, rebuild, and reimagine CFS every single day, we’ve created a new logo to embrace change. We’re excited to launch an entirely new array of projects, events, and resources, and to build a fascinating community of film enthusiasts. 🎨 Logo design by @bea.villadelgado