Prizes were awarded for Fan Favorite, as well as for second and third place, as voted by the audience. Fan Favorite title in the AM Festival went to the creative minds behind “The Unexpected Guest”, a terrifying story about a slumber party visitor who didn’t sleep much!
The team shared that they experienced so many emotions in creating the short film, seeing it on the big screen with an audience in Innovations Hall at CTEC, and hearing the announcement that their group won! “We are grateful that people thought our film was the best”, said Ameerah Chatman, director of “The Unexpected Guest”, “it gave us a lot of confidence and creating a short film is definitely something we’d like to do again.”
AM Winners:
1st: “The Unexpected Guest”
Filmmakers: Ameerah Chatman, Ruben Chavez, Paradiz Gurule, and Hadleigh Wilson
2nd: “They, Myself, and I”
Filmmakers: Ian Darke, Adan Cruz, Dilan Hernandez, and Michael Shwartz
3rd: “Surprise”
Filmmakers: Gabriel Avalos, Matthew Van Heerden Evan Vega, Diego Zaragoza
PM Winners:
1st “Partners in Crime”
Filmmaker: Shelby Wood, PM Digital Cinema Class
2nd: “The Blutsauger”
Filmmakers: James Ambrose, Patrick Carter, Thomas Goff, and Aaron Romero
3rd: “Slumber”
Filmmakers: Gerardo Aguilar, Jonathan Bell, Kayla Toruno, Cleo Wells
The team that created “Slumber” reflected on the best moments of the day for them, which included hearing the audience laugh at their jokes, and understand the storyline they worked so hard to develop, write, and edit.
The films shown at the 2nd Annual CTEC Film Festival event are advancing to the 2nd Annual Porterville Film Festival, to be held December 9th at the Galaxy Theater in Porterville where our students will compete against teams from four additional California counties.