The students from Ballard High’s filmmaking program continue to dominate the competition, walking away with an impressive number of awards from a regional film festival.
BHS took home 18 awards and honors across seven different categories at the Northwest High School Film Festival (NWHSFF) in Seattle. The festival is the largest and longest-running festival for high school filmmakers in the Puget Sound region. Hundreds of students competed for awards in 12 different production categories, BHS filmmaking instructor Matt Lawrence tells My Ballard.
One BHS student took home more than just a handful of awards: junior Marley Rankin also won a full scholarship to a summer program at Studio School, a college film program in Los Angeles.
Here are Ballard’s Northwest High School Film Festival winners by category:
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Art Film
- Prayer by Saia Dugan, Evan Fekete, Jasper Laur, Fiona Paskoff
Comedic Narrative
- Musical!!!! The Musical by Evan Fekete, Owen Russell, Robbie Wilbur
Commercial
- The Better Pie by Everett Harley, Ransom Miller, Kenzo Rutledge
Dramatic Narrative
- Doubts by Liam Bonds, Zach Boone, Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
- In the Wings by Max Beaulieu, Emma Lee, Marley Rankin
Music Video
- Full Tilt Bounce by Casey Chamberlain, Violet Collins, Braiden Hayes, Marley Rankin
- Honey by Emma Inge, Jen Frisch-Wang, Mina Koltnow
Public Service Announcement
- Superhero Award Ceremony by Hadley Molman, Grace Stromatt, Jasper Swift, Hannah Weaver
- A Day at the Beach by Olivia Flego-Wirth, Madison Jackson-Hite, Marley Rankin, Sebastian Zufelt
Suspense
- Blood Cargo by Liv D’Arche, Brendan Hickey, Ben Murphy, Talin Phillips
- Check by Dani Edwards, Emma Inge, Addison Lepse, Fiona Paskoff
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Comedic Narrative
- Take Out by Brendan Hickey, Claire Kilkenny, Rachel Warshaw
Commercial
- Haze for Dayz by Fiona Paskoff, Ben Murphy, Robbie Wilbur
Music Video
- Love is All We Got by Brendan Hickey, Maddie Lausted, Lily Tatge
Public Service Announcement
- Food Fight by Zach Boone, Claire Kilkenny, Fiona Paskoff, Jasper Swift
- Words Pack a Punch by Skye Armstrong, Morgan Coffroth, Julia Lewicki
Suspense
- Franklin’s Monster by Peter Brown, Casey Chamberlain, Evan Fekete, Ruth Payne
- Gingerdead Man by Claude Brun, Violet Collins, Cole Kastner, Freeman Marshall
You can watch some of their films on the BHS Vimeo page, or check out their next film festival in person on June 15 (more details to come).
I was hoping these privileged children could do more than just do a shot for shot remake of Breaking Bad, though not surprised as that was a very non-diverse show.
Please go back under your rock.
This PSA by BHS Digital Film program is great! Love how these students are using their talent to send a message about saving our oceans.
Just saw this…Congratulations Ballard High School and to ALL the winners. Film programs are a great way to keep kids engaged, informed, and in the case of the video attached to this article, doing something to help our environment as well. Keep up the good work!
It’s great, I think they deserve it. Ordinary people vote, especially since there are no bribes. I recently wrote about film review in college by the way, used https://papersowl.com/examples/film-review/ for that. I can say a movie buff and I have something to tell a person about it. I can recommend anything for every taste.