from Erin Katz

700 students from high schools around the region attended the Northwest High School Film Festival at the Cinerama earlier this month, and several Center School film students came home with awards and scholarships.  “Pandora’s Box” won an Award of Excellence for Outstanding Art Film (Zoe Brozman, Fergus Farley, Gina Matassa, Ella Miller).  Art Film Honorable Mentions also went to “Last Supper” (Kathleen Mcintosh, Matthew Wolf) and “Red” (Ashley Armitage).  Digipen, a regional educational center for game design, awarded 6 scholarships to seniors who show  promise in the areas of art, storytelling and animation.  Three of those scholarships went to our very own Zoe Brozman, Gina Matassa, and Kathleen Mcintosh.  Alongside these festival wins, a group of Film 3 students created a video about Successful Schools In Action that has been nominated for a student Emmy by the Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  The regional Emmy Awards are on June 11^th, but alas, no red carpet is involved.