Sleepless in Lake Placid 24-hour filmmaking competition

For the third year in a row, Burlington College was a proud participant in the Lake Placid Film Forum's 2009 Sleepless in Lake Placid 24-hour filmmaking competition. Team members Heather Beliveau, Jarod Collins, Cory Lovell, and Ivan Marrinson joined teams of students from Middlebury College, Ithaca College, Syracuse University SUNY Purchase, and Ohio University in the task of completing a film in 24 hours. The Burlington College team's film, "Coupins de Caresse," is a comedy about a young man's concern that he might not be his new love's only "cuddle buddy." Among other delights, it includes a turn by Burlington College's own Allan Nicholls in a cameo role as "the Canada guy."

In keeping with the Forum's longstanding commitment to education,Sleepless in Lake Placid brings together students from select film schools to participate in the experience of creating a short film within the constraints of a 24-hour time deadline. For developing filmmakers, the competition is a practical exercise in the pleasures and difficulties of filmmaking, highlighting the relative roles of creativity, craft, spontaneity, time, resource management, and teamwork.

The Lake Placid Film Forum each year brings students, writers, scholars, and general audiences together with filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro, Mira Nair, Jonathan Demme, Paul Schrader, and Martin Scorcese in a unique regional film festival.