After two years of being shuttered by the pandemic, the Ballard Film Festival (BFF) is back! Everyone in the community is invited to a screening of new work by students in the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program. The curtains will rise at BFF at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, 2022 in the high school’s Performing Arts Center. The screening will feature short comedies and dramas, advertisements and documentaries.

Tickets ($10 for adults and $5 for students, cash only) will be sold at the door. Film Department t-shirts will also be for sale, as a department fundraiser, for $20 (also cash only). Funds raised at BFF will help provide current equipment and supplies for the Digital Filmmaking students, as well as pay for field trip transportation and other costs.

Films that first screen at BFF are frequently honored by industry professionals. Just recently,

the Ballard Digital Filmmaking Program received nominations in four of the five categories students entered at the Northwest Regional Emmy Awards. BHS student nominees and films to be recognized at the virtual event on the evening of Saturday, June 4 are:

Music Video Category
Oceans Away | Producers: Matthew Wilbur ’23; Siena Gorohoff ’22; and Remy Hirschfield-Rudy, ’23

1418 NW 65th Street, Seattle WA 98117 Steven Bradford, program director spbradford@seattleschools.org BHS program page: https://ballardhs.seattleschools.org/academics/digital-filmmaking-pathw…

Program Blog:: http://bhsvideo.blogspot.com BHS Films: https://vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram Twitter and Instagram: @bhsdigitalfilm

Editor Category
Oceans Away | Editor: Matthew Wilbur ’23
Afraid Of The Moon | Editors: Matthew Toups ’22; Evelyn Noble-Stewart ’22

Photography Category

Oceans Away | Cinematographers: Siena Gorohoff ’22; Matthew Wilbur, ’23; and Remy Hirschfield-Rudy, ’23

About Ballard High School’s Digital Filmmaking Program

The Digital Filmmaking Program is open to Ballard High School students of all grades. Steven Bradford has led the program since Sept. 2019. Bradford has been active in the local film community as a filmmaker and educator for decades, and brings an array of experience to the program with a background in filmmaking, television programs, web-based content, 3D films and corporate videos.

Since the program’s inception by Matt Lawrence in the fall of 2001, Ballard Digital Filmmakers have won hundreds of awards at regional, national, and international film festivals. They have also won honors from the National YoungArts Foundation and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the National and Northwest Emmy Awards) and consistently gained admission to prestigious college film and television programs. In 2007, alumni Kyle Seago (’07) and Jesse Harris (’04) co-founded the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). It has since become the largest youth film festival in the world.

Previous BFF films screened can be viewed on the Digital Filmmaking Program’s vimeo site and via the Program’s Historical Blog. Visit the Digital Film page on the BHS website for current updates too.

For more information or interviews: Contact Steven Bradford at spbradford@seattleschools.org.

1418 NW 65th Street, Seattle WA 98117 Steven Bradford, program director spbradford@seattleschools.org BHS program page: https://ballardhs.seattleschools.org/academics/digital-filmmaking-pathw…

Program Blog:: http://bhsvideo.blogspot.com BHS Films: https://vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram Twitter and Instagram: @bhsdigitalfilm