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Film Forum Teen Filmmaking Challenge
Think you're the next Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee or Sophia Coppola? Have you always wanted to make a movie? Here is your chance. Stay tuned for details for this year's contest.
This year's theme is IMAGINE.
THE CONTEST
ENTRY FORM coming soon
WHO: Alabama Student Filmmakers, Grades 7 - 12
THEME: IMAGINE
LENGTH: 5 minutes max. (including titles & credits)
DEADLINE: TBA
QUESTIONS: Call Natalie at (205) 324-0888 or send
an email and she'll help you out.
Winners will be announced at the 2008 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.
Are you a teacher who'd like to get students involved? Need contest materials
to hand out to students? Want Sidewalk to come talk to your class? Contact Natalie
Hummel at (205) 324-0888 to learn about the possibilities!
Last year, Sidewalk invited students (grades 7-12) to make a short film, 5
minutes or less. The only requirement-- their films had to be about the 2007 competition
theme: DIVERSITY. Prizes included editing software from SONY...
2007 "DIVERSITY" GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Freakshow by Nabih Iqal (Grade 12 / Oak Mountain High)BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Clean Slate by Leah Dunkel & Cayce Savage (Grade 10 / Randolph School)
BEST ACTOR Jedidiah Hogfellow by Andrew Brown (Grade 7 / Pizitz Middle School)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Our Plight by Megan Smith (Grade 11 / Northview High School)
2006 "POWER" CHALLENGE GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Tubed by Spencer Lenzie (Grade 12 / Hoover High)
From one show to the next, television is a powerful medium. One show influences
the actions of others in a chain reaction of super short films.
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