{"id":1294,"date":"2015-05-11T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:11:17","slug":"filmfest8-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2015\/05\/11\/filmfest8-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"FilmFest8 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015<\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations to all the winners of the 8th Annual Williston Film Festival! Held on Friday, May 8 in the Reed Campus Center, the festival featured “great turnout [and] great films,”\u00a0according to\u00a0festival organizer and arts faculty Ed Hing.<\/p>\n

“Some \u00a0submissions were allowed through the internet and that made the tech part way easier,” he noted. “Next year will be all online submissions.”<\/p>\n

Some 70 entries were whittled down to 30 films, presented in two 45-minute ‘acts.’\u00a0Anthony Leung ’15 performed and there was\u00a0pizza during the 20-minute judges deliberation.\u00a0This year\u2019s judges were\u00a0NYC-based film editor Patrick Burns \u201989; Professor Emeritus of Media Studies at the UNC Tony Fragola \u201962; and Northampton-based film maker Jared Skolnick \u201905.<\/p>\n

The first prize, \u00a0a $50 Tandem Bagel gift card, went to Will Harrington of Concord Academy.<\/p>\n

“The judges\u00a0commented that all participants should be proud of their entries, that every film showed creativity and effort,” noted Mr. Hing. “They were impressed with the caliber of the work.”<\/p>\n

Best Motion Picture: <\/strong>“The Frog Whisperer,” Will Harrington, Concord Academy<\/p>\n

Best Editing: <\/strong>“De Dans en Dehors,” Jacob Bridgman, Northampton High School<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay: <\/strong>“Bad Habits,” Karen Morey, Walnut Hill School<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography: <\/strong>“Rembihnutur,” Mikaela Dillon, Walnut Hill School<\/p>\n

Best Animated Feature: <\/strong>“War is Hell,” Forrester Menson, Northampton High School<\/p>\n

Best Documentary: <\/strong>“Couture for a Cause,” Helen Luo, Dana Hall School<\/p>\n

Best Music Video: <\/strong>“Emitime,” Oliver Holblitzelle, Vermont Academy<\/p>\n

BEST PSA: \u00a0<\/strong>“Bike Helmet Safety,” Risa Tapanes, Williston Northampton<\/p>\n

Most Creative: <\/strong>“Experimental,” Jen Carellas, Williston Northampton<\/p>\n

Best Williston Film:<\/strong> “Ford Hall Syfu-r,”John Kay, Williston Northampton<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to all the winners of the 8th Annual Williston Film Festival! Held on Friday, May 8 in the Reed Campus Center, the festival featured “great turnout [and] great films,”\u00a0according to\u00a0festival organizer and arts faculty Ed Hing. “Some \u00a0submissions were allowed through the internet and that made the tech part way easier,” he noted. “Next … Continue reading FilmFest8 Winners<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}