Students from the Ballard High School Video Production Program won 13 awards and honors at the 11th annual Northwest High School Film Festival at Shoreline Community College on May 19.  

The festival is the largest and longest running of its kind for high school filmmakers in the Puget Sound region.  This year 275 productions were entered in the competition from 21 schools.  

The festival was judged by a panel of 23 industry professionals and college media professors.  The event was organized by the Media Educators Excellence Team (MEET) and sponsored by Adobe, Canon, DigiPen, Shoreline Community College and the Art Institute of Seattle.

Ballard High School productions were honored in seven different categories. All of the winning productions will be shown on Friday, May 29 at The Showing, a screening of work by the students. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Ballard High auditorium.  

There is a suggested donation of $5.00.

Ballard's Northwest High School Film Festival winners:

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Comedic Narrative
"The Ring"
Jeremy Eliassen, Dylan Miller

Documentary
"Half Life Snacks"
Emily Deering, Levi Friedman, Kathryn Van Buren

Music Video
"You Live in Your Head"
Alex, Papac, Isaac Sommers, Kathryn Van Buren

News Feature
"Climbing for a Cure"
Kaelan Gilman, Annalee Millar, Will Livesley-O'Neill

Public Service Announcement
"Wolfhaven"
David Marangwanda, Justin Taylor, Kathryn Van Buren

Sports
"Left Side"
Esther Magasis, Andy Tran, Ryan Zemke

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Documentary
"Seattle Needle Exchange"
Coburn Erskine, William Pierce, Ben Steiner

Dramatic Narrative
"Oragami Tomodachi"
Dana Baumgartner, Esther Magasis, Kritika Mani
"You Got Served"
Emily Deering, Bryce Ellis, Jose Anguiano

Music Video
"A Man Has Needs"
Sean Hendricks, Jacob Kutrakun, Matthew Law-Phipps, Tyler Fleming

News Feature
"BHS Volleyball"
Emma Hutchison, Evan Philip, Taylor McGrew

Public Service Announcement
"What are YOU doing?"
Jeremy Eliassen, Suraiya Emdad, Taylor Rubright

Sports
"Rough Riders Lacrosse"
Megan Burkland, Mallory Cummins, Maddie Soukup