Attention Review readers: there is one amazing student organization at Oberlin that does not, perhaps, get as much attention as it deserves. This organization is none other than the Oberlin Film Series, or OFS for short.

OFS is a student-run club open to all Oberlin students that meets every Sunday in Wilder 109 at 5 p.m. All you have to do to join is show up at a meeting.

During each meeting, we go around the room and the different members propose films that they want seen at Oberlin. Typically, each meeting focuses on a different film category such as New Releases, Classics, Documentaries, Foreign, Comedy, Drama, etc.

Next, the members present vote on the films proposed at each meeting and the ones that get the most votes go on to be considered at our final meeting. Those films that make it through this process are the films that are shown the following semester. The only rule is that a film cannot have already been shown by OFS in the past four years.

Once the films are chosen, we secure the rights to show each film publicly, obtain a copy of the film and then schedule its showing time.

Films are usually shown on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in the West Lecture Hall of the Science Center—although that is sometimes subject to change—and admission is almost always only one dollar.

Before a film is shown, we make an effort to put up flyers around the campus to let people know about it. In addition to this, information on upcoming films can always be found in our glass box next to the mailroom’s doors.