Since winning the Grand Jury’s WaveMaker Award at the Seattle International Film Festival last June, Audio Input, the documentary short by Duncan Boszko, Jack O’Neal, Piper Phillips & Sho Schrock, has been sought out by other international festivals. In July, it was an Official Selection at the Tumbleweed Film Festival. Currently, it’s an Official Selection at the CineShift Film Festival in Anacortes, and it is also an Official Selection of the All Seas Film Festival - an online event coming up on September 24th. The film explores the reasons and rewards of Seattle podcasters.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
ABOUT THE DIGITAL FILMMAKING PROGRAM
The Digital Filmmaking Program is part of the free public education at Ballard High School, and is open to BHS students of all grades. Since its beginning in the fall of 2001, students in the program have won hundreds of awards at regional, national, and international film festivals. Based on their portfolios they have won honors from the National YoungArts Foundation and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (at the National and Northwest Emmy Awards) and consistently gained admission to prestigious college programs of film and television, sometimes with large scholarships and advanced placement. (Recent program graduates have attended the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, Chapman University, Columbia College of Chicago, Emerson College, Loyola Marymount University, New York University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Southern California – all college programs ranked by the Hollywood Reporter as among the best for film and television production in the world.)
Some of the students have even made history. Jesse Harris (’04) wrote and directed a feature film for his senior project. The day he graduated, he learned that the LA-based FilmMates wanted to purchase the film for theatrical release. (It opened in Landmark Theaters the following April.) This makes Jesse the youngest person ever to write and direct a feature film that received multi-state theatrical release. In 2007, Kyle Seago (’07) and Jesse Harris (’04) co-founded the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). It has since become the largest youth film festival in the world.
The program provides professional production internships through a variety of media organizations and businesses, television shows, and feature films. Numerous program alumni have gone on to careers in the industry: writing or producing series television programs in Los Angeles, producing music videos for major artists, directing feature films and commercials, working on the camera crew or art department of feature films, producing media for major corporations, or working as broadcast journalists.
Monday, June 08, 2015
BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL FILMMAKERS SWEEP DOCUMENTARY PRIZES
Students from the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program swept both Documentary awards at the 2015 Dominique Dunne Film Competition. The competition was one of the first events in the nation to showcase the work of young filmmakers and has attracted international entries. It has a distinguished Advisory Board including producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. (of The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Samuel Goldwyn Films), actor/director Griffin Dunne (An American Werewolf in London, After Hours, The Good Wife) and producer/ director/actor Ed Sherin (Law & Order). The competition awards only four prizes: two for Dramatic, and two for Documentary. Only schools with outstanding film programs are invited to participate.
Coleman Andersen, Duncan Gowdy and Leo Pfeifer won First Prize in the Documentary category for Clipped Wings, an examination of the ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America. Second Prize went to Rachel Cole, Jaya Flanary and Meagen Tajalle for Raven Rock, a ranch that treats abused children through equine therapy. The awards come with cash prizes.
Coleman Andersen and Leo Pfeifer also received an Honorable Mention in the Dramatic Narrative category for their short film Stolen.
To see the films, visit the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
Coleman Andersen, Duncan Gowdy and Leo Pfeifer won First Prize in the Documentary category for Clipped Wings, an examination of the ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America. Second Prize went to Rachel Cole, Jaya Flanary and Meagen Tajalle for Raven Rock, a ranch that treats abused children through equine therapy. The awards come with cash prizes.
Coleman Andersen and Leo Pfeifer also received an Honorable Mention in the Dramatic Narrative category for their short film Stolen.
To see the films, visit the BHS Digital Filmmaking Program at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
BALLARD FILM STUDENTS WIN GRAND JURY PRIZE AT SIFF
The Grand Jury of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) selected the short documentary Audio Input, by Duncan Boszko, Jack
O’Neal, Piper Phillips & Sho Schrock, for the WaveMaker Award. The prize was presented yesterday at the Golden Space Needle Awards, the culminating event of the festival. The WaveMaker Award is given annually to the best film shown in the FutureWave screening. This screening features the best shorts by filmmakers younger than 19 from around the world. The jury selected the production “for its insightful and engaging
portrait of podcasting, an audio art form, through a collage of interviews and
images.”
To screen Audio Input, visit the Digital
Filmmaking Program’s vimeo page at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL FILMMAKERS WIN BIG AT EMMY AWARDS
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Students in the Ballard High
School Digital Filmmaking Program won five High School Awards of Excellence at
the regional Emmy Awards on June 5.
Coleman Andersen & Leo Pfeifer won the awards for Short Form Fiction and Writing for their film Stolen. The drama concerns the price of revenge. For their documentary Clipped Wings, Coleman
Andersen, Duncan Gowdy and Leo Pfeifer won the awards for Long Form Non-Fiction and Photographer/Editor. (This is the fourth year in a row that the
award for Photographer/Editor has
gone to Ballard film students.) Clipped
Wings explores the impact of the ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of
America. Finally, Leo Pfeifer and Raven
Two Feathers won the Short Form
Non-Fiction award for GeoForce: A Journey to Understanding. This promotional documentary examines the
strategies and success of a University of Alaska field geology program for
rural youth.
The Northwest Chapter of the
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) presents High School
Awards of Excellence to celebrate and promote the most outstanding high school television
productions from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and
Alaska. Students from the BHS Digital
Filmmaking Program led the pack of winners this year, taking awards in five of
the six categories in which they had received nominations.
The award winning productions
can be screened on the program vimeo site at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram .
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL HONORS BHS FILMMAKERS
The
Northwest High School Film Festival is the largest and longest running festival
for high school filmmakers in the Puget Sound region. It is judged by a panel of industry
professionals and college media professors.
In addition to awarding films, they identify promising filmmakers for
college scholarships. This year, BHS film
students Coleman Andersen, Duncan Boszko, Rachel Cole, Jaya Flanary, Duncan
Gowdy, Leo Pfeifer & Meagen Tajalle all received $5,000 scholarship offers
from festival sponsors Cornish College of the Arts and/or The Seattle Film
Institute. The event was organized by
the Media Educators Excellence Team (MEET), an inter-district organization of
high school media production teachers.
Additional sponsors Adobe, the Cinerama Theatre, Highline Community
College, and Vulcan Enterprises helped pave the way for this 17th
annual event. For more information on
the festival, visit www.nwhsff.weebly,org .
All
the awarded Ballard productions initially premiered 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 on Friday, June 5 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:
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Comedic Narrative
Jones Ave
Rachel Cole, Jaya Flanary, Meagen Tajalle
Commercial
Nerd!
Bella Anderson, Jonny Cechony, Kaya Coleman-Harrison,
Simon Gibson
Documentary
Audio
Input
Duncan Boszko, Jack O’Neal, Piper Phillips, Sho
Schrock
Clipped Wings
Coleman Andersen, Duncan Gowdy, Leo Pfeifer
Dramatic Narrative
Stolen
Coleman Andersen, Leo Pfeifer
Educational
A Trip
to the Groovies
Jaya Flanary, Sho Schrock
News/Sports Feature
Full
Effort on the Floor
Duncan Gowdy, Hawk Ticehurst
Public Service Announcement
Food
Lifeline
Duncan Gowdy, Zach Green, Leo Pfeifer
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Comedic Narrative
Fly Me to the Moon
Miles Anderson, Jasper Cote, PJ Hase, Gideon
Wolfe
Practicing Parenthood
Percy Boyle, Avery Davis, Duncan Kastner,
Aaron Miller
Commercial
Blue
Highway Games
Brian Cropp, Lyric Gonzalez, Sid Johnson
Documentary
Delivering
the Dream
Julian Amrine, Lorenzo Rossi, Raven Two Feathers,
Josh Vredevoogd
Raven Rock
Rachel Cole, Jaya Flanary, Meagen Tajalle
Educational
Spirit
Week Announcement
Will Erstad, Victoria O’Laughlin, Hawk Ticehurst
Public Service Announcement
Membership
Ruby Anderson, PJ Hase, Cameron Miller
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