2005 YFC Winners
The 8th annual East Lansing Children's Film Festival announces its winners of the 2005 Youth Film Competition, a state-wide filmmaking competition for up-and-coming filmmakers.
Elementary school division:
1st Place: "Converse!!," Forest Jarvis, grade 6, Suttons Bay Montessori, Suttons Bay, MI.
2nd Place: "Trash," Dana Wessels, grade 5, Suttons Bay Elementary, Suttons Bay, MI.
3rd Place: "Electricity," Andrew Carmen, grade 4, Central Grade School, Suttons Bay, MI.
Honorable Mention: "Dancing Skeletons," Olivia Allen-Wickler, grade 3, Suttons Bay Elementary, Suttons Bay, MI.
Honorable Mention: "Smores," Cody Lincoln, grade 3, Home school, Battle Creek, MI.
Middle school division:
1st Place: "The Cereal-o-matic," Adam Davis, grade 8, MacDonald Middle School, East Lansing, MI.
2nd Place: "Drastic Measures," Evan Rudman, grade 8, MacDonald Middle School, East Lansing, MI.
3rd Place: "The Great Worm," Zoë Allen-Wickler, grade 7, Suttons Bay Middle School, Suttons Bay, MI.
Honorable Mention: "Landslide Lunatics," Chris Popan, Chris Witte and Moohamad Rifai, grade 8, Baker Middle School, Troy, MI.
High school division:
1st Place: "The Red and Blue Wall," Samuel Lemberg, grade 11, Cranbrook Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2nd Place: "When it Rains," Tricia Bobeda, grade 12, Haslett High School, Haslett, MI.
3rd Place: "Neo-Terra: Scene 5," Jared Radtke, grade 11, Troy Athens High School, Troy, MI.
Honorable Mention: "Treasure Hunt," Steve McKenzie, grade 12, Grandville High School, Grandville, MI.
Honorable Mention: "Silent Movie: The Story of Jeremy and Laura," Steve Roberts, grade 12, Walled Lake Western High School, Wixom, MI.
Award winners will be formally recognized and their films will be shown on the "big screen," at South Kedzie Hall on Michigan State University's campus. Films will be shown on Sunday, February 27, at 2:45 p.m. during the festival. Award winners will also receive prize money: $100 for first place, $50 for second place, $25 for third place. A new award category, Girls in Film, will be added to this year's festival. The Girls in Film Award recognizes outstanding work in filmmaking by young women in each age category.
"We are very excited about this new award," said Co-Director of the ELCFF Christine Nichols. "The Girls in Film award is very special because it showcases the talents of budding female filmmakers." Continues Nichols' partner, Co-Director Teri Yago Ryan, "We are attempting to support continued growth of equality in the filmmaking industry and any opportunity that we can provide young aspiring female film makers we wish to encourage."
