April 27, 2007

Video Festival Awards honors top movie makers in District

Over 100 students and staff members were honored for their talents and skills in movie-making at the GCISD Video Festival Awards held April 26 at The Metro Cinema in Colleyville.

For the last five years, the Video Festival has celebrated the creativity of students and staff, offering a variety of contests and activities which promote higher order thinking and enriched electronic communication skills which are so critical for success.

The culmination of the Video Festival is the awards program, recognizing students whose entries stand out as the best in their category. Categories included Make Me Laugh, Teach Me Something, Tell Me A Story, Animation, Character Education and Documentary, with students from kindergarten through grade 12 submitting approximately 70 entries. Judges selected 39 finalists videos and from those the category winners and several special award winners were selected.

In addition to the movie entries, students submitted over 100 entries for the Video Festival's logo and poster contest, and those winners were also recognized at the awards ceremony. The high school winner for the logo contest was Alissa Howard, GHS, and the middle schools winner was Disha Kumar, HMS. For the poster contest, the high school winner was Alissa Howard, GHS, and the middle school winner was Jinny Seo, HMS. Those winners may be seen on the Video Festival website at www.gcisd-k12.org/vidfest.

2006-2007 Video Festival Winners

K-2 Student Produced – Teach Me Something
Let Me Teach You How to Hula-Hoop - Olivia Harris

K-2 Student Produced - Tell Me A Story
The Princess and the Spy - Jaycee Quinn, Jacob Quinn

K-2 Teacher Produced – Make Me Laugh
You Really Crack Me Up - Nicki Anderson

3-5 Student Produced – Make Me Laugh
The Adventures of Kipper - Collin Harris

3-5 Student Produced - Teach Me Something
Backyard Wild - Naomi Sims, Nathan Sims, Tiffany Sims

3-5 Student Produced - Tell Me A Story
Nike Commercial - Drake Wootton, Louis Wootton, Trey Wootton

3-5 Teacher Produced - Teach Me Something
Our Planet Earth - Layton Lyons, Mrs. Lori Kirkhuff

6-8 Student Produced – Animation
Turnip Man - Rachel Reidland, Suzanna Zou

6-8 Student Produced – Make Me Laugh
Big Foot the Movie - Patrick Baldridge, Frankie Cerasoli, Patrick Baldridge

6-8 Student Produced - Teach Me Something
Tumbling from Tots to Teen - Matthew Klein, Geddy Keeble, Tyler Hall, Jake Tooley

6-8 Student Produced - Tell Me a Story
The Magic Pen - Alisa Tajdin, Zoia Alam, Sarah Park, Alison Erving

6-8 Teacher Produced – Character Education
TheTimeless Project - Barnabas Strickland

6-8 Teacher Produced – Make Me Laugh
Take Me To Your... - Barnabas Strickland

9-12 Animation
Living Leaves of Autumn - Todd Meeker

9-12 Character Ed
Soused - Kendra Talley, Matt Mauch

9-12 Documentary
The Race Within - Alex Watson

9-12 Make Me Laugh
Why Can't We be Friends - Mitchell Gray, Brandon Rothaus, James Edford

9-12 Teach Me Something
7 Trick Shots - Christopher Roach

9-12 Tell Me a Story
Frailty. - Derek Putlak, Cory Hejl
Cry Tyler, Cry. - Brian Wilbanks, David Williams

GCISD Staff – Make Me Laugh
Office - Barnabas Strickland, Rachelle Ferguson

Special Awards:

Judges' Award for Best Actor - Daniel Maitland - Cry, Tyler, Cry.
Judges' Award for Creativity - Living Leaves of Autumn - Todd Meeker
Judges' Award for Creativity - Turnip Man - Rachel Reidland, Suzanna Zou
Judges' Award for Best Line of Dialogue - Why Can't We be Friends - Mitchell Gray, Brandon Rothaus, James Edford
Judges' Award for Special Effects - Soused - Kendra Talley, Matt Mauch
Judges' Special Merit Award- Frailty. - Derek Putlak, Cory Hejl
Judges' Best of Show Award - Backyard Wild - Naomi Sims, Nathan Sims, Tiffany Sims


24-Hour Contest:
Evening News - Christian Hughes, Grant Redmond, Natalie Horn, Derrick Putlak

Funding for prizes and gifts for the student winners was donated by businesses and organizations and by patrons of the District with an interest in the arts for students. The Metro Cinema donated the use of its theatres for the awards presentation, as well as for the finalist video screenings on April 10. Other sponsors were: Corporate Express, Huckabee, La Hacienda Ranch, Shazamm Promotions, Academic Superstore, CCV Software, Grapevine Convention & Visitors Bureau, City of Colleyville, The Colleyville Courier and The Grapevine Courier.

Video Festival website

Video Festival finalist videos will be available for viewing on the website soon.