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Links to 2018 Young Filmmakers
High School Student Films
Here are links to the student films, featuring the three Grand Jury Prize winners as chosen by judges at the Young Filmmakers Track screening on Sunday, March 18th from 9 am to noon at the Bow-Tie Cinemas, South Orange, NJ. Each Grand Jury winning film received a check for $200.
Following these three films are links to ALL the FINALISTS (Honorable Mention and Storyteller Citation links coming soon.)
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SIMPLY CLICK ON THE PHOTO OR TITLE AND WATCH THE FILMS!
This year we had such amazing films from all over the world, the U.S. and locally!! We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
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Best Short Narrative
Aidan Romanaux/Max Goldstein
(Columbia HS - Maplewood/S. Orange, NJ)
Best Short Documentary
Madelyn Barkocy
(Morris County School Of Technology - Denville, NJ)
2018 Young Filmmakers Finalists - Narrative Short
GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER
Aidan Romanaux/Max Goldstein
Columbia HS - Maplewood/S. Orange, NJ
Noah Levine, Daniel Schwartz, Maggie Brill, Jess Helfenstein, William Dobbs, Sophia Mozzarella, Sydney Relihan
Livingston HS - Livingston, NJ
2018 Young Filmmakers Finalists - Documentary Short
RUNNER UP (Tie)
Austin Kwok, Sean Bai, Ian Walker and Tony Huang
International School of Beijing - China
GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER
Madelyn Barkocy
(Morris County School Of Technology - Denville, NJ)
Alyssa Berrios, Merry Hailegeorgies,Gabe Hoekman, Verite Igiraneza, Avi Krishan, Sophie Lucarelli, Juliet Marschall, Juan Ortiz
Montgomery Blair HS - Gandhi Brigade Youth Media, Silver Spring, MD