Frosh Council hosted its first Frosh Film Fest last Friday night to a small crowd of under 50 students in Frost Amphitheater.

Students at the event listened to Branner band The People, watched a comedian perform stand-up and viewed the films “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Forrest Gump.”

Although the Frosh Council receives a $5,000 dollar budget each quarter, Stephanie Werner ‘11, Frosh Council secretary and a writer for The Daily, said that the event cost about $6,000.

“The Freshman Dean’s Office pitched in to cover how much we went over in budget in exchange for us getting people to sign up for the Community Partnership Day,” Werner said.

Vicki Sun ‘11, co-chair for the event, said that it could not have happened without the financial help from Dean of Freshmen and Transfer Students Julie Lythcott-Haims ‘89 and the administration.

“We didn’t realize how much other things like lighting and sound [were] going to cost,” she said. “About a week and a half before the event, Dean Julie realized that we should be putting our time into marketing the event rather than coming up with ways to fundraise, and she offered to pitch in, which was really amazing.”

Sun said that she and others on Frosh Council were optimistic that the event would be more successful.

“We thought it would go off really well,” she said. “When we pitched the idea, all the freshmen were really excited. Even upperclassmen asked about it, so we decided to open the event to all students, not just freshmen.”

But Sun said that the hype surrounding the event started to die down as people had other obligations.

“Suddenly we started getting reports of other events that were coinciding, like Modern Millie and dorm trips,” she said.

Werner said that she was surprised at the low turnout.

“It ended up getting really cold Friday night,” she said. “We had scheduled it that night because we thought that there wouldn’t be too much going on, but there actually ended up being a lot. I think we lost a lot of people to indoor events.”

Werner said that the low turnout was unfortunate because Frost is usually unavailable for student events.

“Frosh is such a good space, and we never use it,” she said. “It’s a shame that it is so hard to get, because it really is the perfect venue for outdoor events.”

She said that she was unsure if a similar event would continue in the future.

“I honestly don’t know,” she said. “Each frosh council does their own events. But it would be nice. It was a great idea and well put together — it’s sad that it didn’t work out.”

Sun was also unsure if Frosh Film Fest would occur next year, but said that she thought the event would be a way to relax before the start of a hectic spring quarter.

“It was a really unique and different experience,” she said. “The people who did go gave me so many positive comments about how much they enjoyed the event. The turnout just didn’t match the money spent.”