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Everyone has wondered what it would be like to be maimed and mangled by a great white shark. Oliver A. Horovitz ’08 actually did something about it. Longing for off-the-wall events at Harvard, Horovitz decided to blend inner tubes, Swedish fish, and a 1975 thriller. The result? The “MAC Attack,” which lured adventurous students to the MAC pool, getting them to shell out to sit in inner-tubes while watching Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” on a large screen...
...students purchased grandstand and a limited number of in-pool seats to watch the classic film projected onto a screen with a movie theater-like volume of 2,400 watts. The event, funded mainly by a grant from the Student Activities Fund, was organized by Oliver A. Horovitz ’08, with the help of a committee he formed. “This event is basically a year in the making,” Horovitz said. “I had the idea when I was walking down the street at night, and I passed...
...nice to see a lot of films that were at Sundance that I wouldn’t have been able to see otherwise,” said Oliver A. Horovitz ’08. “It really felt like the right place to be,” he said about his second trip to the Ivy Film Festival...
...best part of being a filmmaker at the Ivy Film Festival, though, is the perks. Between the meals for directors, the free gear, and the parties, it seems the filmmakers get treated very well. No wonder Horovitz came back for a second helping...
Johnson and Horovitz both recommend the festival as a venue for the work of Harvard’s filmmakers. “A huge part of the filmmaking process is actually when you’re done just showing it around to people,” Horovitz says. “You spend 100 hours of your life cramped up in this small space and you should be rewarded by having people...