The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced nominees for the Northwest High School Awards of Excellence. These awards celebrate the most outstanding productions from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Productions are nominated by NATAS industry professionals. Students from the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program earned seventeen nominations, more than twice the number of any other school or organization in the five-state region. The winners will be announced on June 3 at the 54th Annual Northwest Emmy Awards.
Ballard’s nominations span
seven categories, reflecting the diverse skills students learn in the program. These are the nominations by category.
Best Short Form Fiction:
Comeback
by Skala Leake, Avery Davis,
Aaron Miller & Cameron Miller
Missing
Sister by Veronica Redpath, Miles
Andersen & Willow Hudson
Best Short Form Non-Fiction:
Living
Honestly by PJ Hase & Skala
Leake
Transformative
by Krystelle Kurz, Mo Brown,
Claire Elliott & Sorcha Marron
Best Long Form Non-Fiction:
9066
by Maya Konz, Nolan Baker, Bailey
Wall & Kajsa Woolford
Heart
of Gold by Miles Andersen,
Josh-Gaynor Cote, Willow Hudson & Jesse Romero
Still
a Winner by Veronica Redpath,
Elliott Atkinson, Jonathan Bowers & Robyn Wrey
Best Public Service Announcement:
CIDR,
Disease Fighter by Maddie
Lausted, Elliott Russell & Karla Torres
Best Audio/Sound
Comeback
by Skala Leake, Avery Davis,
Aaron Miller & Cameron Miller
Transformative
by Krystelle Kurz, Mo Brown,
Claire Elliott & Sorcha Marron
Best Photographer/Editor:
Frozen
in Debt by Cecilia O’Rollins,
Annabelle Bowman-Mohn, Bergen Johnson & Miles Whitworth
Comeback
by Skala Leake, Avery Davis,
Aaron Miller & Cameron Miller
Heart
of Gold by Miles Andersen,
Josh-Gaynor Cote, Willow Hudson & Jesse Romero
Best Writer
Comeback
by Skala Leake, Avery Davis,
Aaron Miller & Cameron Miller
Dented
Dream by Nicholas Fay, Arturo
Rodriguez & Robbie Wilbur
Heart
of Gold by Miles Andersen,
Josh-Gaynor Cote, Willow Hudson & Jesse Romero
Still
a Winner by Veronica Redpath,
Elliott Atkinson, Jonathan Bowers & Robyn Wrey
This makes the eleventh year
in a row that Ballard High School film students have been nominated by the Academy. Last year they received 13 nominations.
New productions by students
in the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program will be screened at the Ballard Film
Festival on Saturday, June 17th at 7:30 pm in the BHS
auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students
and $10 for adults.
