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Film and Video Festival Draws a Crowd

Students at Suffield High School showed off their work on Wednesday night.

The 11th Annual Suffield Film and Video Festival featured 15 entries from the film and video program at Suffield High School shown to an audience of about 200 people on Wednesday.

Carl Casinghino, winner of Suffield’s Teacher of the Year award, teaches the film and video program. He said there were 30 total students involved between the fundamentals class held in the fall and the advanced class in the spring.

The “Suffield High School Lipdub” was a tribute to Vice-Principal Ed Garvey, who is retiring this year. 

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Casinghino said the filming for the lipdub, where participants lip sync a performance then add in the actual audio during production, took only 30 minutes while the entire preproduction took two weeks.

“It was pretty tough to shoot it,” Casinghino said. “We only had a half hour. From the bell ringing and people going to their places and everything took 30 minutes.”

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Student Zach Anderson said the lipdub was awesome.

“I’m so amazed it came together in so little time,” Anderson said.

Anderson had two films shown in the film and video festival, “Colorblind,” a self-portrait, and “Commencement.”

Anderson said he started filming “Commencement” on Monday and had it loaded onto a computer to be shown about four minutes after the festival started at 6:30 p.m.

“Commencement” is about a student who gets bullied and is trying to get some closure through his commencement speech, Anderson said. His film character doesn’t represent himself since he was never bullied, he said.

Anderson also gave high praise to Casinghino.

“He’s the best,” Anderson said.

Anderson has been influenced by his teacher and will be attending film school at Emerson College in Boston in the Fall.

Matt Silva, a former film student of Casinghino, said he was amazed at what he saw at the festival.

Silva, who graduated from film school in Chicago, said the “animation was phenomenal” and the group of students were very talented.

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