Students from the Ballard High School Video Production Program won 15 awards and honors at the 9th annual Northwest High School Film Festival on May 5. This is the largest and longest running festival for high school filmmakers in the Puget Sound region. Over 270 productions were entered in the competition from 22 schools. The festival was judged by a panel of 14 industry professionals and college media professors. The event was organized by the Media Educators’ for Excellence Team (MEET) and sponsored by Adobe.
This is the third time in the last four years that Ballard High School students walked away with more awards than students from any other school: 7 top prizes (Awards of Excellence) and 8 Honorable Mentions. Many of the awarded productions can be seen Friday, June 8 at The Showing, a screening of work by students in the BHS Video Production Program. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the BHS auditorium. There’s a suggested donation of $5.00.
Here’s a list of Ballard’s Northwest High School Film Festival winners:
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Anti-Ad
“Anti-Steroids”
Taylor Halbett, Steven Nansel, Tommy Nast
“Anti-Tag”
Lars Kaldestad, Doyle McCarthy, Marissa Neroutsos
Commercial
“Crash Landing Pizza”
Justin Amorratanasuchad, Sami Kubo, Cedar Scarlett-Lyon
Dramatic Narrative
“Bittersweet”
Coburn Erskine, Becca Rice, Devon Sizemore, George Westberg
“Nice Touch”
Alec Maclurg, Ben Steiner, Kevin Vitz-Wong
Documentary
“Belize: The Potential of a Nation in Need”
Riley Heckel, Cedar Scarlett-Lyon
Music Video
“Hey, You!”
Michael Gore, Sami Kubo, Kyle Seago, Jordan Stead
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Commercial
“Don’t Waste Your Life at the Bus Stop”
Michael Gore, Mike Hipp, Evangeline Spracklin
Comedic Narrative
“Chasing Game”
Matt Hess, Graham Milgate, Jordan Stead
“A Good Knight’s Sleep”
Marina Bambans, Elizabeth McCallum, Marissa Neroutsos
Dramatic Narrative
“Blindsided”
Dylan Pharoah-Whitney, Kyle Seago, Jordan Stead
“Like Father, Like Son”
Justin Amorratanasuchad, Mike Hipp, Cedar Scarlett-Lyon
Music Video
“Frontier Psychiatrist”
Riley Heckel, Audra McCafferty, Ben Steiner
News Feature
“The Gymnast”
Audra McCafferty, Scott Miller
“Sean Daley: Male Cheerleader”
Hannah Kreimer, Lena Takamori, Paul Wilson
