AYY is celebrating the Year of Arts in 2018. In addition to the Otaniemi Night of Arts, another highlight of the year is the smaller-scale event Elossa, which focuses on films.
Elossa is a film festival curated by students and student groups, and we would like to see students from all of Aalto’s schools and student communities take part in planning the festival. The festival will be held between the 29th of October and the 3rd of November at Kino Tapiola and Kino Sheryl.
“The goal is to create a diverse festival that looks like its creators, the students of Aalto”, says member of AYY’s Year of Arts working group Heidi Kulmala.
The Year of Arts working group is looking for eager student communities for the film selection process. Both associations operating within AYY’s sphere of influence and unofficial student organizations can take part in the process.
But what does this mean in practice, and what does it require of the participants?
Not to worry: the job is easy, and you only need a little bit of passion for films and the energy to organize a pre-qualification round and a simple poll. It requires only a little effort and an enthusiastic group of people that can come up with good ideas.
- Sign up your community by emailing tero.uuttana@ayy.fi by the Mon 20th of August, 10:00.
- If you are selected, you will receive more detailed instructions to your email on how to select the films, as well as the theme that the films should deal with or touch on in some way. The themes are quite flexible – so don’t worry, you will surely find films that fit the theme.
- Appoint a preliminary jury from your community (e.g. the association’s board, or some other group). The preliminary jury will do a pre-qualification round of the films and choose 5–10 works for the next phase.
- Organize a poll on the films selected by the preliminary jury for your members/community. You are free to organize the poll the way you see fit – you can do it e.g. through a Facebook group or via Google Forms.
- Send the names of three films that received the most votes by Wednesday, the 29th of August, 12:00 noon to tero.uuttana@ayy.fi
All AYY members will also get a chance to vote on the theme films later on. Stay tuned!