This year’s Oscars will be taking place on February 24, but the Oscars are small potatoes compared to the Lycée’s very own annual film festival, Rough Cut.
This Thursday, February 28 at 4:30pm in the auditorium, you are invited to join us as we screen this year’s finalists. Films representing the Lycée, as well as such as school as Riverdale Country Day, LREI, Xavier, and Staten Island Academy will be judged by a jury made up of teachers and impartial students.
There will be a reception before, starting at 4:30pm.
“This film festival is an opportunity to share ideas and develop a peer discussion on the topics,” says Pier Paolo, a senior at the Lycée and budding filmmaker in his own right. “Friends and classmates should come see their friends projects being shown on a big screen. Who knows, your best friend may become the next Kubrick or Spielberg.”
Created in 2010, Rough Cut takes place each year and welcomes the participation of schools throughout New York City and beyond.
Students are free to create films on any school appropriate subject; the only requirement is that the films are less than ten minutes long.
A jury of faculty, students and film professionals give out three awards: Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, and Best Experimental Short. The audience also votes for its favorite movie!
Winners of the previous editions:
2016: Milo Sobral, FASNY, for “Sleepless”:
2014: Theo Le Sourd & Pierre Hirschler for “Apartment 42H”:
2013: Theo Le Sourd & Pierre Hirschler for “Food Doodle”:
About the Author :
Elisabeth King joined the Lycée team in November 2011 as the school’s first director of communications. A francophile at heart, Elisabeth spent her junior year of college in Paris, and held her first job at the French Trade Office here in New York. She brings to the Lycée over 15 years of experience in media and communications in non-profits, government, news and business. She was previously executive vice president and director of strategy at ABI, Inc., a boutique public relations agency, and she worked as associate editor on two books co-authored by Todd Brewster and the late ABC News anchor Peter Jennings.