Eight
films by twenty-seven students in the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking
Program will screen this fall at the All American High School Film Festival (AAHSFF). This competitive
festival receives entries from high school filmmakers throughout the country as
well as other nations. The event runs October 6 - 8 in New York City at the
Center for Social Innovation, AMC Theatres Times Square, and the historic Kings
Theater.
Prestigious
judges such as screenwriter Diablo Cody, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock,
and actors Kristen Stewart and Dylan McDermott evaluated the films.
Official Selections are eligible for prizes presented at the Teen Indie Awards at the conclusion of
the festival.
In
addition to the Official Selections, a short documentary that Ballard film
students produced for IMAX and the United Nations will also screen at the
festival. Only five high school
filmmaking programs in the nation were chosen by IMAX and the AAHSFF to create
these projects. Ballard was selected due
to the quality work BHS film students have brought to the AAHSFF on a regular
basis. (Ballard films have been
finalists for top awards such as Best PSA, Best Documentary, Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Drama and Best Overall Film.) The documentary
is titled On the Backs of Salmon and was produced for IMAX by Chris Barrett, Martin
Bolivar Caroline Harader, Jasper Land, Maddie Lausted, Freeman Marshall, Aaron
Miller, Cecilia O’Rollins, & Miles Whitworth.
Here,
by category, are the Official Selections by Ballard High School’s Digital
Filmmaking students.
DOCUMENTARY
Fat Friday by Chris Barrett, Jessica
Luecke & Zoe Zillig
Heart of Gold by Miles Andersen,
Willow Hudson, Josh Gaynor-Cote & Jesse Romero
Transformative by
Mo Brown, Claire Elliott, Krystelle Kurz & Sorcha Maron
DRAMA
Clover Four Confidence by Annabelle Bowman-Mohn,
Josh Gaynor-Cote & Brynn Miller
Frozen in Debt by Annabelle
Bowman-Mohn, Bergen Johnson, Cecilia O’Rollins & Miles Whitworth
Horror/Sci
Fi/Fantasy
Richard by Ian Colbeck,
Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas, Aaron Mamaril & Wylie Soltes
One
film produced independently by BHS film students also made the festival: Solo by Elliott Atkinson and Zach Boone is an Official Selection
in the Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy category.
