In Hollywood, after the wrap comes the party. And so it transpired for two teen filmmaking teams from this year’s national Fresh Films competition, who were recognized recently in a red-carpet premiere party at the Ivar Theater in Los Angeles.
The twenty-two teen filmmakers from New York City and Nashville earned top honors in a summer-long competition that featured 10 short films (by 100 teen filmmakers) from across the country.
“The Fresh Films competition is a unique chance for teens to work with a professional crew and real world equipment to create a film.”
The winning film, “Moments of Grace,” by the New York team, describes a woman’s struggle to find anonymity in New York City so she can avoid deportation and quarantine following an environmental disaster in her Eastern Bloc town. It received more than 35% of more than half a million votes cast in a national online contest.
The Nashville team grabbed the runner-up spot for their film “The Otis Revue,” a comedic take on one young executive’s elevator ride to work, shot inside an actual office elevator.
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Team New York created and shot their film in one week in and around Manhattan, assisted by Dreaming Team Films, a company selected to assist them. The students chose actors and locations, directed, ran camera and post-produced their films.
