Binghamton University students are headed to Cornell this weekend, not to go cliff jumping, but to represent BU in the Centrally Isolated Film Festival.

Six short films made by BU students were accepted into the upcoming weekend’s film festival in Ithaca on Nov. 21 and 22. Four of these films were written, directed and produced by members of the Binghamton Film Initiative’s (BFI) production team.

Jared Biunno, the president of BFI and a senior majoring in cinema, said that this was the first film festival the club is taking part of as a team, and he’s feeling optimistic.

“When this film festival was going on last year we were just barely coming together, formulating a team, seeing if we could make a film,” Biunno said. “As time went on we got better, more unified, the chemistry was great. We were able to just bang out films.”

The panelists chosen to select the winners of the contest include two Cornell University professors, two local Ithaca filmmakers and film editor Michael Miller, who has edited movies for Woody Allen, Michael Bay and the Coen Brothers. They will pick two films — the best film and the runner-up — to win monetary prizes, which according to Biunno, will be amount to “a couple hundred dollars.”

BFI entered a three-minute comedy titled “Heavenly Blue” and an 11-minute romance titled “Spare Change.” BFI also collaborated with 2012 alumnus Ethan Scarduzio on two 10-minute long films, one of which Scarduzio describes as “an odd little film” called “Dead Meat.”

“I started working on [Dead Meat] in Boston, Massachusetts in the spring of 2013, but the area and the film crew felt miscast,” said Scarduzio, who graduated with a degree in cinema. “So I sent an email to Jared [Biunno] at BFI, and I’ve been working with those guys ever since. I can’t think of a better group of filmmakers.”

Along with the four films created by BFI, BU will also be represented by seniors Michael Chernak and Aleksandr Rikhterman, both majoring in cinema. Rikhterman’s “Pura Vida: Solo-Travel” focuses on interviewees’ trips abroad, and Chernak’s “Watch Me Fall Apart” developed from an idea created in a BU advanced filmmaking class.

“‘Watch Me Fall Apart’ is a voyeuristic look inside of a young man’s acceptance of his inner demons in a surreal world of sex, blood and pop music,” Chernak said.

Biunno said he is looking forward to entering larger competition instead of just the film premiere screening events BFI hosts on campus and in the community.

“We’ve managed to get people to notice film making in Binghamton,” Biunno said. “For the first time in the last couple months I’ve seen people with like minds want to make films together and have fun and with all that happening. It’s an added bonus that an institution as prestigious as Cornell is recognizing us.”