![]() “ was so excited for it, and that made it better for everyone,” said Hubbard. Just stop doing that.”ĭariano and Hubbard went into the festival with no film or editing experience, but cited the guidance of Senior Instructional Designer and coordinator of the festival Joe Dolce as a helpful tool in overcoming this hurdle: Dariano interjected, “No, there is-don’t kill people. “I would love to say that our movie had a deeper meaning and pushes for social change-it does not,” said Hubbard. ![]() A short thriller sequence, the film featured fake blood and washed-out lighting, mimicking the style of many popular horror films. The first-place film, “Stay Weird,” produced by the group Wyo (comprised of junior finance major Camryn Marshall, The Lamron’s assistant business manager, as well as junior communications majors and Lamron co-sports editors Nathan Hubbard and Dylan Dariano, with a special shoutout to senior history major Heather Matela) took a much more serious approach to the same set of elements. Lustyik continued, glibly, “Everyone wants to be praised by their peers we’re all followers and sheep.” “You could literally make anything…and people will be hyping you up and clapping for you…and that’s what makes it all worth it.” “We wanted to have a lot of fun with it, because we only had three minutes, so we were like, ‘Let’s do something kind of funny,’” said Lustyik. Lustyik’s group, Women of Film (including junior English education major Maddie Tavernier and junior biochemistry major Kathleen Lewis), won second place for their film, “Yup, This Is It.” Lustyik’s group took a humorous approach to the festival’s rather loose prompt of 20 “elements” to consider including in a submission. “There are moments where you’re thinking, ‘Yes, we’re so back,’ and then five minutes pass, and you’re like, ‘It’s over-we’re never getting this done, we’re never gonna edit it in time.’ And then five more minutes pass, and you’re like, ‘This is a really good idea and I’m so excited.’ And by the end of it, I was like, ‘I’m really excited to show people my film.’” “I’ve never done Insomnia Fest before-I always wanted to when I was a freshman,” Lustyik said. Luckily, the Insomnia Film Festival is an annual tradition that film minors, actors, writers, and overall movie buffs can look forward to as a chance to engage with the Geneseo community innovatively and originally.ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film festival experienced a hiatus from 2019 to 2023 thus, for students like Hannah Lustyik, a senior English creative writing major, the opportunity to participate in the festival has been long-awaited. As a school without an art department or film major, creative cinematic opportunities for Geneseo students are sometimes hard to come by.
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