Students in the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program led the pack of winners at the Northwest High School Film Festival (NWHSFF), claiming eighteen awards and honors across seven different categories at the Cinerama Theater in downtown Seattle. Currently in its 21st year, the NWHSFF is the largest and longest running festival in the Puget Sound region exclusively for high school filmmakers. Hundreds of students competed for awards in twelve different production categories.
In addition to the awards for
her Dramatic Narrative, PSA, and Music Video, junior Marley Rankin won a full
scholarship to a summer program at Studio School in Los Angeles. Studio
School is the first college film program created in a motion picture
studio.
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 arts
teachers. Festival sponsors included The Seattle Film Institute, Brain Buffet, Central Washington University, Montana
State University, The Prodigy Camp,
Seattle University, Studio School, 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 15 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.
(Many of these can be seen on the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program’s vimeo
channel at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram.)
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Art Film
Prayer
Saia Dugan, Evan Fekete, Jasper Laur, Fiona Paskoff
Comedic Narrative
Musical!!!! The Musical
Evan Fekete, Owen Russell, Robbie Wilbur
Commercial
Everett Harley, Ransom Miller, Kenzo Rutledge
Dramatic Narrative
Liam Bonds, Zach Boone, Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
Max Beaulieu, Emma Lee, Marley Rankin
Music Video
Full Tilt Bounce
Casey Chamberlain, Violet Collins, Braiden Hayes,
Marley Rankin
Emma Inge, Jen
Frisch-Wang, Mina Koltnow
Public Service Announcement
Superhero Award Ceremony
Hadley Molman, Grace Stromatt, Jasper Swift, Hannah
Weaver
Olivia Flego-Wirth, Madison Jackson-Hite, Marley
Rankin, Sebastian Zufelt
Suspense
Liv D’Arche, Brendan Hickey, Ben Murphy, Talin
Phillips
Dani
Edwards, Emma Inge, Addison Lepse, Fiona Paskoff
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Comedic Narrative
Take Out
Brendan Hickey, Claire Kilkenny, Rachel
Warshaw
Commercial
Haze for Dayz
Fiona Paskoff, Ben Murphy, Robbie Wilbur
Music Video
Brendan Hickey, Maddie Lausted, Lily Tatge
Public Service Announcement
Food Fight
Zach Boone, Claire Kilkenny, Fiona Paskoff, Jasper
Swift
Words Pack a Punch
Skye Armstrong, Morgan Coffroth, Julia Lewicki
Suspense
Franklin’s Monster
Peter Brown,
Casey Chamberlain, Evan Fekete, Ruth Payne
Gingerdead Man
Claude Brun, Violet Collins, Cole Kastner, Freeman Marshall
