Students in the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program led the pack of winners at the Northwest High School Film Festival last week, claiming eleven awards and honors across seven different categories at the Cinerama Theater in downtown Seattle. Currently in its 19th year, the NWHSFF is the largest and longest running festival in the Puget Sound region exclusively for high school filmmakers. Hundreds of students from twenty-four high schools competed for awards in twelve different production categories.
The
festival was judged by a panel of industry professionals and college media
professors. Sponsors included The Seattle Film Institute, Washington State
University, the Cinerama Theatre, Highline Community College, and Vulcan
Enterprises.
All
the awarded productions from BHS initially had their premiere at the Ballard
Film Festival (BFF). This event screens
new films by BHS Digital Filmmaking students at the end of every semester. The next BFF will be Saturday, June 17 at 7
pm. Tickets are $5 for students and $10
for adults and will be sold at the door.
Here
are Ballard’s Northwest High School Film Festival winners by category:
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Commercial
Meori Boxes
Chris Barrett, Emma Inge & Cecilia O’Rollins
Documentary
9066
Nolan Baker, Maya Konz, Bailey Wall & Kajsa
Woolford
Heart
of Gold
Miles Andersen, Josh Gaynor-Cote, Willow
Hudson & Jesse Romero
Dramatic Narrative
Comeback
Avery Davis, Skala Leake, Aaron Miller & Cameron
Miller
Public Service Announcement
Tater
Towers
Max Beaulieu, Ellie Dynes & Nick Fay
HONORABLE MENTIONS
4.No
PJ Hase, Brynn Miller & Isabella Warshaw
Next
Owen McGranaghan, Jesse Romero & Kajsa Woolford
Hydromance
Leo Pfeifer, Krystelle Kurz & Evan Wallace
Documentary
Transformative
Mo Brown, Claire Elliott, Sorcha Marron &
Krystelle Kurz
Non-Fiction News or Sports
Feature
Still a
Winner
Elliott Atkinson, Jonathan Bowers & Veronica Redpath
Satire/Parody/Mockumentary
Fat
Friday: Two Men, Two Hours, and Two Hundred Chicken McNuggets
Chris
Barrett, Jessica Luecke & Zoe Zellig
