Students in the Ballard High
School Digital Filmmaking Program won five High School Awards of Excellence at
the regional Emmy Awards on June 5.
Coleman Andersen & Leo Pfeifer won the awards for Short Form Fiction and Writing for their film Stolen. The drama concerns the price of revenge. For their documentary Clipped Wings, Coleman
Andersen, Duncan Gowdy and Leo Pfeifer won the awards for Long Form Non-Fiction and Photographer/Editor. (This is the fourth year in a row that the
award for Photographer/Editor has
gone to Ballard film students.) Clipped
Wings explores the impact of the ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of
America. Finally, Leo Pfeifer and Raven
Two Feathers won the Short Form
Non-Fiction award for GeoForce: A Journey to Understanding. This promotional documentary examines the
strategies and success of a University of Alaska field geology program for
rural youth.
The Northwest Chapter of the
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) presents High School
Awards of Excellence to celebrate and promote the most outstanding high school television
productions from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and
Alaska. Students from the BHS Digital
Filmmaking Program led the pack of winners this year, taking awards in five of
the six categories in which they had received nominations.
The award winning productions
can be screened on the program vimeo site at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
