Berkshire Student Film Festival Seeks Submissions

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema will present its inaugural regional student film festival over the first weekend in May. 
 
"This open call offers a felicitous opportunity for young creators of the Berkshires to see their short films on the big screen," said Images intern and Williams College student Minnie Lerner. 
 
The festival is seeking submissions from high school and college students at schools within a 25 mile radius of Images Cinema, including Williamstown, North Adams, Pittsfield, and Bennington, VT. Submissions are now open until Sunday, March 17 and can be made upon accessing the Images website (imagescinema.org). 
 
Up to two primary creators may be credited per project, up to three works may be submitted per primary creator, and each primary creator must be a currently enrolled secondary school or college student. Films must run within 10 minutes' time and will be evaluated on the day of the festival by a robust panel of local industry professionals and film scholars. 
 
Submitted films will be reviewed by a committee that will consist of students and Images Cinema staff. Jury prizes will be awarded by a jury of filmmaking and film curating professionals. An Audience Award will also be awarded. 
 
 

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Williams College Plans Temporary Parking Lot at Former Field House Site

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff

The foundation of the demolished Towne Field House is still visible on the Williams campus.
 
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College last month secured the town's permission to convert the former site of Towne Field House to a temporary parking lot.
 
In a series of meetings hearings before the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Conservation Commission, the college received a special permit and a negative determination of applicability of the Rivers Protection Act to enable to new use for the lot on Latham Street.
 
Engineer Charlie LaBatt of Guntlow and Associates represented the college before both town panels, stressing each time the temporary nature of the plan.
 
"Five to eight years is what's anticipated, as the college works to solve what's next for that area of campus." Guntlow told the ZBA. "It will help alleviate parking concerns they have while other projects go on around campus that may displace workers and tenants.
 
"This use of this area, which has been dormant for about two years, it was felt was a fairly easy, low-impact and yet beneficial use for the community — five to eight years in the while everyone could benefit from it."
 
LaBatt and college officials who attended the ZBA meeting said that while the planned 66-space lot is intended for college use, it could be available to the public in the evening, on weekend or during college breaks, just like the adjacent existing lot associated with the college's facilities building.
 
The school needed a special permit from the ZBA, in part, because of the temporary lot is an expansion of and will be connected to the existing parking lot, which itself does conform to the bylaw. The lot across from the Weston Field athletic complex extends beyond the front edifice of the facilities building it serves; the bylaw requires parking areas in that district to be set back from the road at least to the profile of the building.
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