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Despite several technical difficulties, the first Young Jewish Filmmakers Film Festival featured six Boston University student-productions at the George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium Thursday night.
"The Show Us Your Shorts! Student Filmmakers Showcase," presented by the Boston University Hillel House and sponsored by a Jewish Student Projects grant from the Hillel Council of New England, featured six short films revolving mostly around the theme of love.
Hillel House Student Activities director Kip Lombardo - with the help of the College of Communication junior Matthew Weiss and senior Nathaniel Stricker - worked to create and organize the event.
"Students submitted their films and a committee of students reviewed the submissions, deciding on them based on content and length," he said.
Lombardo said the event gave Jewish students an outlet to present their films.
"Every year in Boston there is the Boston Jewish Film Festival, which showcases works by famous Jewish or Israeli filmmakers, but student filmmakers don't really have a chance to be showcased," he said. "That's why we decided to have this event."
Organizers encountered technical difficulties delaying the start of the event, forcing one film to be restarted and requiring the audience to relocate to the Hillel House to view the final two films.
The event attracted about 30 people, drew both friends of filmmakers and student attendees.
"I don't do filmmaking myself," said College of Arts and Sciences freshman Johanna Bronk, who said she decided to attend the event after seeing a flier posted at the Hillel House. "But I enjoy watching other's work."
Stricker, whose film "Milk & Honey" was "the result of a divine collaboration with Kyle Graffam, Ben Katz and Lindsey Mann," said he was pleased with the turnout, given that it occurred in the middle of the week and that it was the first time such an event had been held.
He said his film, a love story about a strange librarian named Fletcher, had been well received, but noted "it's hard to tell since you're in a dark room."
Other films included COM senior Sam Rosenberg's "Mrs. Gochet," a tale of one elderly woman's avoidance of unwanted valentines, and senior Stefan Glidden's "Commitment," the comic story of one man's attempts to extricate himself from a "sticky" relationship.
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