When the envelopes were opened at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on Oct. 4, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced two films by students in Ballard High School’s Digital Filmmaking Program as winners of National Student Production Awards. The films were judged by members of the Academy, as well as college media professors.
Winning the prize for best Music
Video was Today, by Coleman Andersen, PJ Hase & Bergen Johnson. The prize for best Editing went to Miles
Andersen, Emily Black, Sophie DeGreen, Jesse Romero & Sho Schrock for their
work on Hologram. Both films can
be viewed on the Digital Filmmaking Program’s vimeo page at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
Students from the Ballard
High School Digital Filmmaking Program have frequently won Student Production
Awards from the Academy in the five-state Northwest Region, but this is the
first year that a national level of adjudication has been added. Also nominated at the national level was The
Dragon’s Lair by PJ Hase, Jonny Cechony & Ellie
Clarrissimeaux. It was nominated for
best Short Form Fiction. The awards
presentation can be viewed at https://livestream.com/tndv-television/StudentProductionAwards. For more information, visit http://emmyonline.com/nationalstudent
.
All of Ballard’s honored 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.
