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This year there is a new film festival geared especially, but not exclusively, for students of Ivy League schools. Fittingly, it is called the Ivy Film Festival. The brainchild of David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities...
...recognized for academic excellence, there is a strong artistic side to these colleges that frequently goes unnoticed. The goal of the festival is to display that there is more to Ivy League students than the stereotype of high SAT scores and straight As on high school report cards. As Peck said, “Everyone knows about USC and NYU, but no one thinks of the Ivies when it comes to film…even at Brown, the film students generally go unrecognized.” In the Ivy League schools, the VES students often do not receive the respect...
...idea for the festival arose due to Peck’s exposure to another Ivy League institution; the Ivy Council. As a former member, Peck saw the collaboration of all these schools as an incredible opportunity to foster creativity among Ivy League students gone to waste. Now, disillusioned with the Council, Peck has taken the initiative himself to make this festival happen. Working over the summer with the aid of fellow Brown students Justin Slosky and Seth Pipkin, along with Harvard student Kyle A. Gilmore ’02, Peck organized the entire festival, securing the guest speakers and panelists...
Although the festival is named the Ivy Film Festival, it is not restricted solely to Ivy League students. Originally, building off of the inspirational idea of the Ivy Counsel, Peck intended to make the festival Ivy League only, wanting to use it as a means to unify the Ivies. However, fearful of falling into the stereotype of the Ivies being elitist and exclusive, he opened the festival to all colleges nationwide, but kept the name as it was in order to maintain that the focus is still on the Ivies and in order to attract more press. In addition...
...Lions refused to let up. A little over a minute later, McCall found Peck once again, this time on a 85-yard bomb, to seal the game...