The filming has wrapped, the edits have been completed, and more than a year’s worth of hard work will culminate with a celebration. And the entire community is invited to join in.

DePaul University’s Digital Cinema program and its production company, Project Bluelight, in conjunction with the DePaul Activities Board, will bring their first completed motion picture to the city on Friday, June 2 during the first annual Digital Cinema Premiere Film Festival. The Digital Cinema program is part of the university’s School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI).

Held outdoors on the university’s Lincoln Park Campus Quad (on the south side of Fullerton Pkwy., just west of Kenmore Ave.), the film fest will feature 17 of the top student-produced narrative, experimental, music video, and documentary films at DePaul, followed by the world premiere of “William’s Left Ear,” the Project Bluelight feature written by student Ryan Haydon and directed by fellow undergraduate Brian Gannon.

The evening’s festivities kick off at 6:30 p.m. with food, refreshments and live music from local bands In Italics, The Shortcuts and Curse This Metal Body. The films will follow at 9 p.m. and run approximately two hours.

Admission to the event is free and open to the public, and parking is available two blocks east in the Sheffield Garage, 2331 N. Sheffield Ave. In the event of inclement weather, the films will be shown in Rooms 161 and 254 of the adjacent Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave.

Project Bluelight, a professional motion picture production company within DePaul CTI’s Digital Cinema Program offers students practical motion picture experience. This unique opportunity allows students to gain film experience in two distinct experiential learning situations: working under a group of professionals on a full-length feature film, and for more advanced students, in the production of an independent short. Upon completion, films are submitted to independent film festivals and distribution options are explored. Project Bluelight was founded in 2004 by CTI professors Matt Irvine and Gary Novak as a professional, educational, and community outreach program with a dual goal of creating high-quality independent films and providing an intensive, practical, film production experience for DePaul students.