Liam Bonds, Brendan Hickey and Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
Three short films produced by
students in the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program are winners at Fresh Film Northwest. This competitive regional festival is
coordinated by the Northwest Film Center
in Portland, Oregon. It accepts entries
from filmmakers ages 13 to 19 in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia. This is the fourteenth
year in a row that students from Ballard’s Digital Filmmaking Program have been
among the winners.
The winning films were
comedic or dramatic narratives. Doubts,
by Liam Bonds, Zach Boone, and Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas, illustrates the internal
struggle of a boy plagued by anxiety.
The film premiered last month at the All American High School FilmFestival in New York City. The film noir
Takeout,
by Claire Kilkenny, Rachel Warshaw, and Brendan Hickey, concerns an assassin
and spy who collide in a diner. In Midnight
Criminals, produced independently by Brendan Hickey, Claude Brun and
Sam Cleary, a group of desperate college students find a unique way to pay
tuition.
