Cinemuse publicized the Seven Deadly Sins Film Festival with the "Wheel of Sin," a game in which contestants spin the wheel and answer a question corresponding to a particular sin in order to win a prize.

2008 - 2009

In the 2008-2009 school year Cinemuse spread further to the JMU campus and Harrisonburg community. A year of beginnings and endings, Cinemuse saw the graduation of many influential members, including five of the six officers. Many newer members, however, rejuvenated Cinemuse with the promise of a rebirth in the following year.

Shakespeare Film Series with the Medieval & Renaissance Studies
During fall semester, Cinemuse co-sponsored a Shakespeare film series with the Medieval & Renaissance Studies Minor program. Throughout the semester, members and non-Cinemuse students interested in Shakespearean films gathered in Keezell G9 to watch Henry V, Hamlet, King Lear, and Much Ado About Nothing. After each film Dr. Mark Rankin, coordinator of the Minor program, led a discussion.

Virginia Film Festival, October 30 - November 2
For the third year in a row, Cinemuse members traveled to Charlottesville to the Virginia Film Festival. The theme was "Aliens," and Cinemusers made three trips to see four great movies throughout the weekend.

WLM Fundraiser
Cinemuse chose to help Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger again this year, promoting the download of many copies of the program. After heavy fundraising, they made $273 in the course of a week.

The Seven Deadly Sins Film Festival, February 5-8
The fourth annual film festival spread Cinemuse farther into the JMU and Harrisonburg communities. For the first time, Cinemuse hosted half the event at Court Square Theater in Downtown Harrisonburg. Members built the event up during the proceeding week, handing out flyers on the chilly commons while engaging passers-by in a Wheel of Sin trivia event. Thanks to sponsors Blue Nile, Greenberry's, Xenia, Cinnamon Bear, The Artful Dodger, Klines, and Old Dominion Coffee Company, Cinemuse held raffle drawings at each film with great prizes from those establishments. Starting with a midnight showing of Se7en on Thursday night, the festival had one film that represented each sin:

Wrath - Do The Right Thing*
Envy - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Sloth - The Big Lebowski
Lust - La Dolce Vita*
Gluttony - Marie Antoinette
Pride - Downfall
Greed - Waking Ned Devine*

All events were free and open to the public.
*After three of the films, speakers led discussions on the sin typified in the film.

Trips to Regal Cinemas 14
Taking advantage of the proximity to Harrisonburg's largest movie theater, Cinemuse traveled to Regal Cinemas 14 to view select movies over the course of the year.

Grafton After Dark with UPB
Cinemuse co-hosted Grafton After Dark showings with UPB Film Division for the second time in 2008-09.

Cinemuse Productions
Early in the school year, a new way of pitching films emerged. A formal pitch process, the club voted on the Splintered Dreams script to produce. Dreams is a film written and directed by James Loizou and produced by Anne Love Feild, with cinematography by Corbin Craft and editing/special effects by Garrett Johnson. Once organized into teams, members spent the entirety of fall semester shooting the film and most of spring semester editing and adding special effects. The film successfully premiered on April 26, 2009, after heavy publicity, to an audience of more than 100 people. Cinemuse Productions also completed films for other JMU organizations, such as Into Hymn, JMU Opera Guild, the JMU Theater Department, New & Improv'd, and The Nicaragua Project.