Harvard College Film Festival

The Harvard College Film Festival (HCFF) is one of the largest student-run festivals devoted to undergraduate-produced films, hosted annually on the campus of Harvard University. It was founded in 2014 by members of Harvard Undergraduate Television but has since become independent of the organization.
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The 2014 festival featured an industry panel with Courtney Spence, Jenny Halper, Elizabeth Hunter, and Edward Zwick.
The 2015 festival featured a screening of American Promise, and the world premier of The Eye-Me-Not, a film by Carlos Amorales. It also included an industry panel with Ethan Vogt, Patric Verrone, Brian Koppelman, and Nina Whittington-Cooper.
The 2016 festival included a screening of The Hunting Ground accompanied by a panel discussion with Cambridge-based sexual assault survivors and activists; an advance screening of The Dark Horse accompanied by a Q&A with director James Napier Robertson; an advance screening of The Adderall Diaries; a screening of Krisha, accompanied by a Q&A with lead actress Krisha Fairchild; and an Oculus Rift virtual reality experience from Nurulize. The industry panel featured Sev Ohanian, Parvez Sharma, and David Karlak. The festival closed with a Q&A with David Simon, journalist and creator of The Wire, Treme, Generation Kill, and Show Me a Hero. The 2016 festival was also the first to accept international submissions. The theme of the festival was "Young Visionaries: The Different Faces of Film."
2016 festival film judges include: Jennifer Bornstein, Austin Bunn, Liz Canner, Haden Guest, Adam Hart, Biodun Jeyifo, Irene Lustzig, Richard Peña, Mark Poirier, David Pendelton, Leonard Retel Helmrich, David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, and Alexander Zahlten.

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