From Ballard High School

For the ninth straight year, students from the Ballard High School Video Production Program are winners in Fresh Film Northwest. This competitive regional festival is coordinated by the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon. It accepts entries from filmmakers ages 13 to 19 in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

The music video Stop Pretending by Marlene Anderson, Khasbold Bataa, Gabe Fabens, Zach Green & Lorenzo Rossi won the Creative Self-Expression Award for “outstanding achievement in cinematic storytelling.” The video features the original song of the same title by Rossi for his band Yellow Peril and concerns relationships that are held together by social expectations. An Honorable Mention was awarded to the music video Song for Anna, by Isaiah Hoban-Halvorsen, Lucy Harstrick, Josh Vredevoogd & Kiana Wyld. It tells an ambiguous story of romance and loss. Finally, winner of the Heart Award for “authenticity, originality, and humane treatment of a subject” is the visual story The Eye of the Beholder by Walker Evans, Isaiah Hoban-Halvorsen & Brian VanWagenen. It takes a subjective look at the destructive impact of fashion marketing.

A jury of filmmakers and educators screened 117 entries to select 14 works for the festival. The festival seeks to celebrate originality, freshness, authenticity, and conviction in the voices of young filmmakers. The program will be screened and prizes awarded at the Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium on Saturday, November 16 at 1 pm. Filmmakers, film lovers, friends and families are welcome to attend.

To see the winners as well as other new work by BHS filmmakers, attend our end-of-the-semester Showing on Friday, February 8 or Thursday, February 13 at 7 pm in the BHS auditorium. Tickets are $10 for adults or $5 for students. All proceeds support the BHS Video Production Program. For more information on the Video Production Program, visit www.bhsvideo.blogspot.com.

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