Living and working in a university town has some wonderful perks, like being able to attend free- or low-cost events on campus such as last night’s Black Glasses Student Film Festival. I love doing activities like that together with my boys. It is great memory-making time, exposes them to different aspects of college life, and besides … I’m not so naive as to think that they’ll continue to want to hang out with their ol’ mom in a few years! I have to enjoy “date” nights while it’s still cool.

I invited No. 2 to go with me, but he politely declined. (It was a Friday night, after all, and he wanted to play video games and stay up late.) No. 1 readily accepted the invitation, and we had a ball. He said as we were driving home that No. 2 was really going to regret not going. 🙂

The short films – 16 in all – ranged from trailers for full-length features to comedy clips to drama to stop-motion. I was floored by the talent of our students! I was impressed by the well developed stories, outstanding cinematography and mind-blowing computer graphics. I also recognized several Theatre students who acted in the films. Love it!

We got to vote for the Audience Choice Award, and although our picks didn’t win, the one that did was actually both of our next-favorite. It was a tough choice, and I was proud of all the student filmmakers. Some of these kids’ names will be on the big screen one day!