Students in the Ballard High
School Digital Filmmaking Program won six Student Production Awards at the
Northwest Emmy Awards on June 8. Best Music Video went to More Than I Said, by Grace
Stromatt, Freeman Marshall & Elliott Russell. Best Animation/Graphics/Visual
Effects went to Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas for Time Cop: First Blood. Best
Audio/Sound went to Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
for Doubts. Best Photographer/Editor went to Dani Edwards and Emma Inge for their
work on Check. For best Writer,
there was a tie between two Ballard productions. The winners were Liam Bonds for Stay, and Liv D’Arche, Brendan
Hickey, Ben Murphy & Talin Phillips for Blood Cargo.
Ballard students led the pack of winners for
the fifth year in a row, winning five of the six categories in which they had
been nominated.
The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) presents Student Production Awards to celebrate and promote the most
outstanding high school television productions from five Northwest states:
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
Professional members of the Academy select the nominees and winners.
Some of the awarded films, along with new
productions by students in Ballard’s Digital Filmmaking Program, will be
screened at the Ballard Film Festival
this Saturday, June 15 at 7:00 pm in the BHS auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for
adults, and will be sold at the door.
