Digital Film Students Take Home Awards of Excellence at AGFF
Summary : Congregations Ballard Digital Film Students.
Congratulations!
The BHS Digital Film Program is happy to announce that some of our students recently took home two Awards of Excellence at the Puget Sound All Girls Film Challenge. The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) was last weekend, as well as All Girls Film Fest (hosted by NFFTY this year).
The following Ballard HS Filmmaking students won 2 of the 3 Awards of Excellence at AGFF.
- Hazel Hartman ’25, Viviana Corsini ’25, Miriam Goodman ’25 and Juliet Murphy ’25 won one of the awards for their Short Horror Film, “Trapping You”.
- Gianna Goldyn ’26, Waverly Farmer. ’25 and Luella McNichols won an award for their dramatic short “In the Shadows”.
Both of these student films will be showing at the school’s film festival in June, which will take place on June 7 and 8.
Past Ballard Film Grads Presented Selections
Three of our past Ballard HS Film Grads also presented official selections at NFFTY, which is reserved for filmmakers 24 and under.
- Brendan Hickey, ’19 showed his short dramatic film “Sweet Sorghum”, and won the audience award for its screening bloc.
- The other two official selections by Ballard HS Grads were from Grace Stromatt ’19 a short horror film “Ouija Marry Me”; and
- Matthew Wilbur ’23 “Sierras” an experimental 16mm film set in Yellowstone National Park.
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)
NFFTY is the world’s largest, most influential film festival for emerging filmmakers 24 years old and younger. The Talented Youth is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that was founded in 2007 with the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) as its flagship program.
NFFTY has grown into the world’s largest film festival for emerging directors. NFFTY supports young filmmakers by offering professional level workshops year-round. In addition NFFTY hosts filmmaker resources, tips, news and information.
NFFTY itself was the brainchild of Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking alumnus Jesse Harris (’04). Harris made history in 2004 when Living Life, the feature film he had written and directed as a senior project, was purchased by FilmMates and given a theatrical release. (It opened in Seattle in 2005.) The festival was co-founded by Harris and Kyle Seago (’07) – a Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking student at the time. A growing list of sponsors and partners paved the way for this thirteenth annual event.
Mark Your Calendar for the Ballard HS Film Festival June
Mark your calendars and see the amazing work of our talented student filmmakers at the Ballard Film Festival (BFF) on June 7 & 8, 2025 in the Performing Arts Center (PAC).
Watch for more details!
