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Students from the Ballard High School Video Production Program won 15 awards and honors across six different categories at the 15th annual Northwest High School Film Festival at the Cinerama Theater in downtown Seattle.  This is the largest and longest running festival for high school filmmakers in the Puget Sound region.  This year 370 productions were entered in the competition from 24 high schools.

Perhaps the biggest prize of the festival is the “J-Dogg” Scholarship.  The award was established in 2011 by the family of Justin Amorratanasuchad, the gifted Ballard High School filmmaker whose career was tragically cut short by an accident during his second year of college.  The memorial scholarship gives upwards of $5,000 each year toward the college education of a festival winner preparing to pursue a degree in film and television production.  This year, the award was presented to BHS Video senior Vann Fulfs.  In the fall, Vann will be studying film production at Columbia College in Chicago – a program ranked by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the best in the world.

The festival was judged by a panel of industry professionals and college media professors.  The event was organized by the Media Educators for Excellence Team (MEET) and sponsored by Adobe, Advanced Broadcast Solutions, the Art Institute of Seattle, InvestEd, Keith Rivers Films, Glazier’s Camera, Key Code Media, and Shoreline Community College.  For more information on the NWHSFF, visit www.nwhsff.weebly.org.
 
There will be a screening of new work by students in the BHS Video Production Program (including some of this year’s prize-winning shorts) on Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. in the BHS auditorium.  Tickets to “The Showing” are $10 for adults and $8 for students and will be sold at the door.
 
Ballard’s Northwest High School Film Festival winners:

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Dramatic Narrative - Suspense
  Sundown
  Vann Fulfs, Bryan Quandt, Jacob Scott 

News Feature
  Viking Robotics
  Ben Fuesel, Bryan Quandt

Public Service Announcement
  The Door
  Liam Moser, Cecilia Orozco-Chavez, Kimi Rutledge

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Comedic Narrative
  An Appetite for Knowledge
  Gabe Fabens, Nick Hauger, Lorenzo Rossi

  Great Mimes Think Alike
  Will Slater, Michael Vitz-Wong, Kiana Wyld

  Hollyday
  Katie Brostrom, Kelsey Mendenhall, Sara Timmons 

Commercial
  A Night to Remember
  Isaiah Hoban-Halvorsen, Ana Krafchick, Cooper Rickards

Documentary
  Deep Down
  Isaiah Hoban-Halvorsen, Kaila Lafferty, Oona Lowe

  My Little Brony
  Vann Fulfs, Brian Quandt, Taylor Martin

Dramatic Narrative
  Eye of the Beholder
  Walker Evans, Isaiah Hoban-Halvorsen, Brian VanWagenen

News Feature
  Ballard Cooks
  Milo Adams, Coleman Anderson, Carlos Caceres Martinez, Leo Pfeifer

  It Takes Balls to Juggle
  Brian Cropp, Lily , Raven Two Feathers

PSA/Anti-Ad
  Know Your Limit
  Joseph Downey, Grace Turnell, Robyn Wrey
 
  Not Even Once
  Sam Baldwin, Paris Burhen, Brian Cropp, Gabe Tagulao

  Real Nordic Heritage
  Julian Amrine, Joshua Vredevoogd
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Congratulations to Jazz Band 1 for winning First Place at the Northwest Jazz Festival!  The festival was held on May 3^rd at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon.  The band had an exciting performance and won rave reviews from the adjudicators.  Three Outstanding Soloists were acknowledged for their performances:  Julian Amrine on Trumpet, Will Radford on Alto Sax and Luca Cartner on Drums.
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Mark your calendars for the Inaugural Beaver Nation Athletic Awards night Tuesday June 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm in the Ballard High School gymnasium.  The event will be a huge celebration for all the Ballard High School athletic accomplishments this year—with a solid emphasis on academics and what it means to be an athlete in life, at school and on the playing field/court. 

Specifically, the event will:

·         Summarize of the accomplishments of all of our 25+ teams and clubs

·         Award the top male and female athletes in multiple categories

·         Honor an outstanding parent, community or business member who goes above and beyond to serve our student-athletes and our athletic programs with the Jim Vatn Award

·         Honor a coach, teacher or staff member who exemplifies the heart and soul of Ballard High School athletics with the John Nygaard Award

 

Nominations will be accepted from coaches and the community.  Go to this link to make your nominations http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QQHQH7C  Community nominations are open until May 11, 2013.  A select committee of Ballard High School coaches, teachers and staff will vote from those nominated.

 

Please plan on attending the event and helping start a new Beaver Tradition!

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Congratulations to the Ballard High School Men's Quartet for the 1st place win at this past weekend's prestigious State Solo and Ensemble Competition at Central Washington University!  Men's Quartet members Gerson Tschider, George Chrisafis, Logan Monson, and Spencer Johnson competed against 21 other men's vocal ensembles from across the state to take home this top prize.  This win marks the first time a Ballard ensemble has taken the top prize at the WIAA state music championship.  Additional congrats to the BHS Percussion Duet and our eight soloists for their Superior performances at the competition.    
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