Another year passes as film students make the big screen at the College of Staten Island.
By: Rossani Garmendia
The future Martin Scorsese’s of today’s generation presented their film projects at CSI’s annual Student Film Festival this past Tuesday and Thursday.
The screenings were all of different durations and split into two days. The event took place in Building 1P, room 223, where booklets of every showing were handed out. The books were also what the audience used to vote for their favorite film.
A total of 20 films were submitted by students with a great turnout of an audience. Many of the projects discussed the social and political issues that take place today. One of them titled “Bill From Accounting”, produced by JJ Choi, was about the potential takeover of AI and how it could replace jobs in the near future. It was created as an experimental animation.
Another film titled “Adam”, produced by Mohammed N. Alasri, was about an immigrated family who came to the US in search of a better life. The main character Adam, the teen son, takes over his father’s deli after an injury from a step stool. One night, a couple of rebellious teenagers cause problems for Adam as he was getting ready to close. One of the teens was played by a 2025 graduate, Christian Martinez.
“I thought the plot of Adam was relatable when being new somewhere gets challenging”, said Martinez. “It comes with facing barriers we don’t think about such as culture we have to adjust to and fit in the best we can.”
Martinez also appeared in the winning film of the night, “The Strong and the Fragile One”, produced by Jayden Metellus. There were a handful of CSI students who acted in multiple of the films.
There were shots done by a drone, underwater filming, and scenes made up of special effects in colors. Yet another successful film fest to close off the semester.
