New Film Society Club is on the horizon - Six Mile Post

The film club will offer many opportunities to film majors and non-film majors alike.

The Film Society Club has been officially approved for the spring semester of 2021. The club will serve as the stomping grounds for all students — not just film majors — to congregate and share in their love of everything cinema.

The club is still in its planning stages and has not yet had its first meeting. Ingram expects the first meeting to take place on Tuesday, Oct. 19, where they will formally establish the club and elect officers. Officer positions include president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.

Division Chair of Film and Theater at GHC and Executive Director at the RIFF, Seth Ingram will be adding a new title to his name: Film Club Society Faculty Advisor. (Emily Harris)

Rome campus student and film production major, Damon Self, is the current acting president of the club and expects to officially hold the position once the club is fully formed.

The idea was initially proposed by Tristen Tolbert, former president of the Student Government Association and current Floyd campus gaming club president.

The faculty advisor for the club will be Seth Ingram, Division Chair of Film and Theater, as well as the Executive Director of the Rome International Film Festival. Ingram hopes to put the approved SGA budget to good use by funding student film projects and hosting a film festival for GHC.

“[Film studies is] very new to this school, and I know there are a lot of creatives,” said Self, “There are a lot of hidden talents out there that people don’t even know that they have yet.”

“[The Film Society Club] would be a hub for students who either love just watching film or students who want to produce film… to come together and network and figure out if they want to work on student projects together or get their own projects going,” Ingram said.

“We’ll let the students run the show,” said Ingram, “so I want to just throw out the ideas to them and let them pick and form what the projects that we focus on are.”

Possible activities for the club include hosting film screenings, bringing in special guest speakers from the film industry and having students create their own short films.

“Another option,” Ingram said, “will be for students to attend film festival screenings or maybe go to some conferences that are focused on the film industry.”

The club is expected to be involved closely with the Rome International Film Festival. “For novice filmmakers,” said Tolbert, “the festival is the place to go.” The RIFF affords many opportunities for networking and showcasing for up-and-coming film industry workers.

Self and Tolbert said the film industry has a plethora of skills that can be applied outside of the industry. Networking, equipment training, video and audio editing, creative writing and teambuilding. According to Tolbert, now is the right time for interested individuals to get involved.

“Even if you’re not interested in going into film production as a career, there’s still a love of cinema and I think that’s shared across any discipline… We really don’t want this to be exclusively for film students,” said Ingram.

Students who are interested can contact Seth Ingram at [email protected].

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