Correction appendedLast weekend marked the first annual student-run film festival IndieLouies, which ran over the course of two days. Organized by the Brandeis Film Collective, the festival came into being as a response to administrative changes to this spring's SunDeis. According to the festival's Web site, the main goal of IndieLouies "is to have fun and to bring the student film community closer together."

For the first day, seven of the longer offerings (each were 20 to 30 minutes in length) were screened at Schwartz Auditorium. One standout was Aiden Own, by Ben Harel '12. Arun Narayanan '10 plays Aiden, a struggling single young man who meets a former love interest. The film was named Best Film and also received a Best Cinematography award at the awards ceremony on Sunday.

AnnaBelle Lee, credited to Ilan Amouyal '11, Kelly J. Frydman '11, Angcon Podder '10 and Stephen Robinson '11, is a disjointed portrait of a man following an ex-girlfriend through a dream world, shot in large part in black and white and reverse motion. The film earned a Best Editing award.

The team submitted another film, Severance, one of the few offerings in the horror genre. In the film, a man known as the "Craigslist killer" has the tables turned against him when the sister of one of his victims takes revenge in his own house. Then there was the zombie-thriller inspired The End, filmed by a group of students called Old Smoky's Rebellion. It was created for the 48-Hour Film Contest, where students are given a line, a prop and a character to incorporate into a film in the span of two days.

One of the highlights of IndieLouies was a performance by comedy duo BriTANick, which consists of Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher. You may know them from their viral video spoof "Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer," which has received about 3 million views combined. They began their show at a tightly packed Cholmondeley's with an assortment of hilarious live sketches, one of which featured Kocher making a lap around the coffeehouse while half-improvising a variety of ridiculous characters. Besides live performances, there were also screenings of their comedy shorts, one of which was McElhaney's senior thesis for NYU, "Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses." To close, each gave an impressive stand-up comedy routine and even involved some Brandeis students in a slow-motion epic choreographed fight.

Following BriTANick, the second day of screenings began with ParaDeis Lost and The Maltese Dodo, both from Anthony Scibelli '09. The latter was named Best Comedy. Following this was Best Screenplay winner Park Pros, from Misha Sundukovskiy, a student at NYU, which told the story of an ambitious parking attendant trying to romance his high-powered businesswoman customer while trying to get along with his foul-mouthed, unhinged and ridiculously duty-bound boss. The comedies continued with Sherman Shopping and Still Alive, the winning 48-Hour Film Contest entry, comically chronicling the only mobile person on campus after a virus leaves everyone frozen. This was followed by Michael J. Gomes's dramatic off-campus submission Eulogy, concerning a man who must deliver his father's eulogy after years of avoiding him. For their work on the film, Gomes and actor Stephen Radochia won Best Director and Best Actor, respectively.

There was also a profusion of art films at the Saturday screenings. The Secret is Free From Prudishness was a sexual look at self-mutilation. Actress Kacie Leblong received Best Actress for her performance in the movie. Director Kelly Brannon (also not a Brandeis student) screened two deeply personal films: Fusion, a monologue inter-cut with interviews with truckers with whom Brannon hitchhiked, and Stories of My Friend: Ron, a narrative look at a friend's arrest and eventual suicide.

Among the fascinating movies present were the two "true life" films presented on the second day of the festival. The first, Everybody Has Their Miracle, was a more traditional documentary. Shot in Buenos Aires, it looks at the use of religion as business in the forms of Santeria shops, street vendors and even a Holy Land theme park, with the mix of faith and commerce cumulating in the Día de San Cayetano festival. It was named Best Documentary of the festival. The second movie, The Fens, was much less traditional. Entirely filmed from inside a guitar, it records director Erica Russo as she meets people and plays her guitar in the park. Though short, it made for an entertaining concept, with charming results as Russo meets and sings with random passersby. The Fens picked up Best Sound and Best "Artsy" Film.

Following the screening was an awards ceremony hosted by Scibelli and the festival's organizers. On top of the previously mentioned honorees, Best Animation was given to An Exercise in Subtlety, which due to technical problems was not able to be screened at the festival.

Correction: The original version of this article misspelled the name of an IndieLouie participant. The participant's name is Michael Gomes, not Michael Gomez.