The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced nominees for the National Student Production Awards. These nominees were selected from top prize winners at regional Emmy Awards ceremonies across the country last spring. Four productions by students in Ballard High School’s Digital Filmmaking Program won top prizes in the five-state Northwest Region last June. Three of these have now been nominated at the national level.
Nominated for best Short Form
Fiction is The Dragon’s Lair by PJ Hase, Jonny Cechony & Ellie
Clarrissimeaux. Today by Coleman
Andersen, PJ Hase and Bergen Johnson is nominated for best Music Video, and
Miles Andersen, Emily Black, Sophie DeGreen, Jesse Romero & Sho Schrock are
nominated for best Editor for their work on Hologram. All these productions can be viewed on the
Digital Filmmaking Program’s vimeo page at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
The Northwest Chapter of the
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has presented High
School Awards of Excellence for years to celebrate and promote the most
outstanding high school television productions from five Northwest states:
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. This year, the Academy has added a national level to the competition. The awards presentation will be held at the
Newseum in Washington, DC at 12:30 pm (EST) on October 4. The event will be streamed live at https://livestream.com/tndv-television/StudentProductionAwards .
All of Ballard’s nominated
productions had their premiere at the Ballard Film Festival (BFF). The next BFF will be on Friday, February 10
at 7 pm in the BHS auditorium. Tickets
are $5 for students and $10 for adults, and will be sold at the door.
