Sunday, May 10, 2015

BALLARD FILM STUDENTS WIN BEST DRAMA AT CINEYOUTH

Coleman Andersen and Leo Pfeifer won Best Drama in the junior division at the CineYouth Awards last Saturday night, May 9, at Columbia College Chicago. They won the prize for their short film Stolen.

CineYouth is a project of the Chicago International Film Festival. This annual film showcase celebrates shorts by filmmakers 21 years old and younger from around the world. As winner of the prize for Best Drama, Stolen will screen in the CineYouth "Best of the Fest" at the 51st Chicago International Film Festival next October.

Both Andersen and Pfeifer are third year students in the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program. Andersen, a senior, will be continuing his film education at NYU next fall. Pfeifer, a junior, also plans to study filmmaking in college.