A team of Anacortes High School students picked up two awards at a recent video competition in Bellingham. The AHS students’ production, To Die Alone, won the Judges’ third place award and the Audience Choice second place award at the Guerilla Film Project.
The Anacortes students were one of the 24 teams from high schools in northwest Washington raced the clock to write, shoot and edit 3-minute narrative films in just 65 hours. All films included the following 'prompts' or objects and line of dialogue to show that they were shot during the contest window: a roll of toilet paper, a board game, and the line "Is that a herring?"
The AHS students involved were Tyler Thompson, Emerson Sortun, Nik Massey, Anders Rodin, Mariel McCown (left to right, above).
The awards:
- Sedro Woolley High School: Heart Beaker (sic), 1st Place Judges' and Audience Choice Awards, and The New Guy, 2nd Place Judges' Award
- Anacortes High School: To Die Alone, 3rd Place Judges' and 2nd Place Audience Choice Awards
- Oak Harbor High School: Ninja Police, 3rd Place Audience Choice Award
The student teams met in Bellingham on Thursday, Feb. 11, for a workshop on story development. At the end of the workshop, the students were given the ‘prompts’ that needed to be included in their projects. The returned on Sunday, Feb. 14, with their films. They were judged on the spot at the Pickford Cinema. The films were shown to a full house at the theatre that afternoon after an awards ceremony.