The originality of [the creators'] work certainly embodies a wonderful feature of filmmaking, which is that stories told can be drawn from anything – a deeply personal experience, a fascination with a certain subject, something fun or strange, just for the sake of it.

CaMS fest honors the filmmaking of its students, presenting their student’s films on the big screen in the home to many CaMS classes, Norris theater. I’m grateful to be Spotlight’s first review on CaMS Fest and am excited to see all the future shorts at CaMS Fest.

Archives like ours here at USC are repositories of history, culture and prescience that exist nowhere else on Earth, and they must be acknowledged as such. It’s nothing less than a crime that these films have gone unseen for so long, and a joy that we are yet capable of resurrecting them for new audiences.