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Media Credit: Alejandra Bayardo Local residents become audience members in alleyways as the Classic Film Festival begins its summer run.

Student filmmaker from PCC exhibit their works at the premiere night of the Pasadena Classic Film Festival at the Armory Center for the Arts.

The first night in a three-week series of film screenings displayed the talents of six students, some of which some had no previous experience other than their enrollment in Professor Lindsey Jang's cinema program.

Bringing her work before a public audience for the first time, filmmaker Rebecca Ramage, one of the four who were present at the screening, admitted to feeling a bit self-conscious.

Much like her emerging filmmaker counterparts Ramage, who is still in the cinema program, continues to get more involved in all areas of the many-sided process of creating films.

"I haven't really found my niche yet," said Ramage whose film, a personal project, was an introspective look at fate.

Each of the filmmaker present offered choice words about the deeper meanings of their film projects and about how the PCC film program impacted their future cinematic ambitions.

"The program is geared toward acting in a professional manner," said filmmaker Joey Harris whose experimental film, which stared Screen Actors Guild members, was a statement on the facelessness of war.

Now enrolled in the film project at Cal State Long Beach, Harris, like his fellow PCC filmmaker, brought his vision to life on a lean budget.

"The most expensive thing is feeding the actors," joked filmmaker Stephanus Kim, whose film tells the story of the last days of a distressed young woman's life.

"If classes for sound, acting, and writing were all connected in one way it would really help," Kim said about the efforts to bring together different elements of film making within the program. "Structures are critical, and understanding how the outcomes will work and how the pacing will be."

Events at the Armory Center serve as the character portion of the city-wide Old Pasadena Film Festival that brings films directly to the Pasadena community by screening them for free in public locations.

The Armory's main studio, a renovated warehouse where by day painting and printmaking are taught, welcomed a modest opening night crowd.

Using an LCD projector in a de facto movie theater environment and focusing primarily on student work, the first night's test audience was inquisitive. "I just wanted to see how good [the films] would be compared to slick Hollywood movies," said moviegoer Christine Mendoza.

Continuing on Friday and Saturday nights, as well as the following weekend, Pasadena will again have cinema written all over it.
Multiple public screenings will be held each evening in various places around town with at least one each night in the One Colorado Courtyard directly in front of Hughs Alley on Colorado Boulevard.

More films by student and faculty from PCC and other institutions teaching film making will also be screened at the Armory Center.
Those interested in times, addresses, and which films are to be shown should check the One Colorado website at www.onecolorado.net for more information.

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