Students
in the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program led the pack of winners
at the Northwest High School Film Festival on May 1, claiming thirteen awards and
honors across six different categories at the Cinerama Theater in downtown
Seattle. Currently in its 20th
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-two high schools competed for awards in
twelve different production categories.
Ballard students also won two of the four competitive scholarships
presented at the event. Skala Leake (’18)
won the J-Dogg Scholarship, a $7,000 per year award that she can apply at the college
of her choice. She’ll be studying film
at Columbia College of Chicago – a program ranked by The Hollywood Reporter as
one of the best in the nation. Veronica
Redpath (’18) was one of only two filmmakers awarded a scholarship to The Prodigy Camp – an intensive week-long filmmaking workshop attended by
gifted filmmakers from all over the world.
The
festival was judged by a panel of industry professionals and college media
professors. It was organized by the
Media Educators for Excellence Team (MEET), an inter-district organization of
high school media production teachers. Sponsors
included the Seattle Film Institute, The Studio School of Los Angeles, WashingtonState University, Central Washington University, Montana State University, the
Cinerama Theatre, and Vulcan Enterprises.
All
the awarded productions from BHS had their premieres 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 16 at 7
pm in the BHS auditorium. 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. (Many of these can now be screened on the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program's vimeo site.)
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Comedic Narrative
Paul, Dark, and Handsome
Ellie Dynes, Jesse Romero, Miles Anderson & Cole
Kastner
Richard
Wylie Soltes, Ian Colbeck, Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
& Aaron Mamaril
Commercial
Let There be Bacon
Ellie Dynes, Alec Gabbert & Julian Whitworth
Your Neighborhood Bookstore
Jasper Swift, Caleb Flynn & Naomi Glunz
Documentary
On the
Backs of Salmon
Miles Whitworth, Cecilia O’Rollins, Martin Bolivar,
Aaron Miller, Chris Barrett, Jasper Land, Maddie Lausted & Freeman Marshall
Dramatic Narrative
Bottled
Emotions
Zach Boone, PJ Hase, Aiden Jereczek & Bailey
Wall
Public Service Announcement
Locked Doors
Drew Hedlund,
Calvin Johnson & Sandro Rios
TB Time Bomb
Casey Chamberlain, Maddie Lausted, Freeman Marshall
& Elliott Russell
Satire/Mockumentary/Parody
Road Trip Week
Ethan Hawthorne & Jessica Lueck
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Commercial
Truth Bar
Aven Fay, Liam Bonds & Zach Boone
How to Lime
Martin
Bolivar, Krystelle Kurz & Caroline Lavallee
Documentary
Building
Solutions
Krystelle Kurz, Jonathan Bowers, Claire Elliott, Aven
Fay, Duncan Kastner, Skala Leak, Elliott Atkinson & Annabelle Bowman-Mohn
Dramatic Narrative
I’ll Be
There
Veronica Redpath, Maureen Brown & Claude Brun
