Student Film Club and Film Club President recognized for exceptional leadership with SAIL awards!

We’re delighted to announce that the Student Film Club and Film Club President Dan Colella (’20) have received Student Achievement, Involvement, and Leadership (SAIL) awards for 2019-2020! The SAIL Awards Program includes the highest awards for exceptional student leadership at the College of Charleston. The Awards ceremony originally scheduled for April 16 in Stern Center Ballroom was canceled, so award recipients were notified this morning via email. The Student Film Club received the SAIL award for Student Organization of the Year, and Dan Colella received the Student Organization Presidential Award. With all the Student Film Club has accomplished this year–holding its annual screenwriting competition, its annual (this year, virtual) Student Film Festival, and giving students opportunities in digital production, and more–it comes as no surprise. The Student Film Club, its leadership (Dan Colella, Eli Saliba, Noah Goodman) and its membership, richly deserve this highest honor. And for those of us who know Dan and have worked with him, we believe the Student Organization Presidential Award couldn’t have been given to a more deserving student. And we are doubly pleased to announce that Dan was also awarded the Cistern award for his work in Student Life! Dan is wildly enthusiastic about the cinema, and this enthusiasm takes him beyond the creative process and serves him well as one of the most gifted student leaders we in the Film Studies program have come across at the College of Charleston. Our hats off to Dan and the Student Film Club!

From left to right: Dan Colella (President), Eli Saliba, and Noah Goodman (Treasurer).