As they wind down after the third Aspiring Mind Film Festival, edit new projects, and search for a distributor for their film “Marbles,” the DVC Film Club stays busy as they look for more members in the new semester. Despite his active schedule, club organizer David Sherr took some time to sit down with The Inquirer to talk about film production, inspiration, and the club’s future.

I: How was the DVC film Club founded?

DS: It was founded three semesters ago by Seth Craven. They produced two movies, “The Last Lonely Saturday” and “Marbles.”

I: Is your focus on short film only, or do you do longer features as well?

DS: To us, a long feature . . . is like 12 minutes. A four minute video basically will take a day of planning, a half day to shoot, and a day and a half to edit. It then needs to be compressed to be affordable. So a day of planning, a day to shoot, a day of editing.

I: How is the club related to the Aspiring Minds Film Festival?

DS: It’s our own film festival; we just had our third one. We’re . . . into putting on the festival. The real value of the schools is not the algebra or films, but the networking and commodity knowledge. The club provides those social networks, not Facebook… but, you know, “Realbook.” Real life social networks where the club becomes a focal point and it grows.

I: Were your films received well at the  festival?

DS: Yeah, we’ve been very successful. What’s funding us now is the $3 per head we charge, and we showed 16 films last time.

I: What standard equipment do film club members use to shoot on?

DS: Some of us use really dynamite cameras – some of the guys bring their own. We use Canon HDs and Sony Excels, but they’re not HD, they’re standard definition DVs.

I: Which films and directors do you take inspiration from?

DS: It all depends; we all have our own muses. Stanley Kubrick, Coppola. I pay homage to all the masters. I used those birds in the end of my film, like Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”

I: Which genres do you want to work with in the future?

DS: We do lots of different stuff. We have music videos in mind. Natalie’s going to play the Lily of the West, I’m going to sing it. It’s a story, we’ll take the shots, it will be like “Repulsive Bastards.”

I: What future projects should we look forward to seeing next?

DS: I would say that you’ll have to stay tuned, because the runaway winner of the second Aspiring Minds [Film Festival, Mitchell Kell, who was the critical and mass winner of that show, is going to basically head up the club as presidential chair and potential director. He’ll have a major impact.