The
Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced nominees for the Northwest High School Awards of Excellence. Students from the Ballard High School Digital
Filmmaking Program earned 18 nominations. These awards celebrate the most
outstanding productions from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana and Alaska. Productions are nominated by NATAS industry
professionals. The winners will be
announced on June 8 at the 56th Annual Northwest Emmy Awards.
Ballard’s
nominations span six categories: best Short Fiction Film, best Music Video,
best Animation/Graphics/Special Effects, best Audio/Sound, best
Photographer/Editor, and best Writer. (In
the category of best Audio/Sound, every production nominated was by Ballard’s
film students!) This is the thirteenth year in a row that Ballard High
School film students have been nominated by the Academy. Last year they received 19 nominations.
All
the nominated productions 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 15 at 7 pm in
the BHS auditorium. Tickets are $5 for
students and $10 for adults and will be sold at the door.
Here’s the list of
NATAS nominations by category:
Many
of these productions can be seen on the Digital Filmmaking Program’s vimeo channel
at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram.
Best Short Form Fiction:
Check
by Dani Edwards, Emma Inge, Addison Lepse & Fiona Paskoff
Doubts
by Liam Bonds, Zach Boone & Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
In the Wings
by Max Beaulieu, Emma Lee & Marley Rankin
Lost
and Found by Saia Dugan, Braiden Hayes, Jasper
Laur & Fiona Paskoff
Best Music Video:
All
Your Misfortune by Claude Brun, Jasper Swift &
Bailey Wall
Love
is All We Got by Brendan Hickey, Maddie Lausted &
Lily Tatge
More
Than I Said by Freeman Marshall, Elliott Russell
& Grace Stromatt
Stay
by Liam Bonds, Ellie Dynes & Tulia Cascioppo
Best Animation/Graphics/Special
Effects:
Ethan
Hawthorne-Dallas for Time Cop: First Blood
Best Audio/Sound:
Max
Beaulieu for In the Wings
Liv
D’Arche, Brendan Hickey & Ben Murphy for Blood Cargo
Ethan
Hawthorne-Dallas for Doubts
Emma
Inge for Check
Best
Photographer/Editor:
Dani
Edwards & Emma Inge for Check
Andy
Voyles & Sebastian Zufelt for Distance
Best Writer:
Liam
Bonds for The God Equation
Liam
Bonds for Stay
Liv
D’Arche, Brendan Hickey, Ben Murphy & Talin Phillips for Blood Cargo
