Youth Film Festival

yffwinners2011

7th Annual Youth Film Festival
April 29, 2012

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Calling all young filmmakers ages 10 to 18 for our 7th Annual Youth Film Festival!

Express your creativity and filmmaking skills and share your stories!

Films may be in one of four different categories—Narrative, Documentary, Music, or Green Theme.

Age categories are 10-13 & 14-18.

Short films (under 11 minutes long) should be submitted by March 9, 2012.

The 2012 Youth Film Festival will be held on April 29, 2012, and will showcase films selected for the festival by a jury of industry professionals.

In addition to the screenings, the festival program also includes an awards ceremony and a youth filmmaker Q&A.

Download Entry forms here and start working on your film project!

2011 Sixth Annual Lark Theater Youth Film Festival Winners

The 2011 Sixth Annual Youth Film Festival was held on Sunday, April 3rd. The festival was well attended by young filmmakers (ages 10-18) as well as their friends, families and supporters. Twenty-nine films were selected from the submissions that came from various parts of California as well as New York, Boston, Maryland and Indiana. Although all of the films were worthy of praise, prizes were awarded in the following categories:

Best Music Film (ages 14-18):
“Sleeping Lessons” Kendra Bradanini (Urban School of San Francisco)
Best Documentary (age 10-13):
“Chinese Invention Express” Joseph Osborn (Davidson Middle School, San Rafael, CA)
Best Documentary (ages 14-18):
“Independence In Sight” Lauren Lindberg & Bonita Tindle (Bay Area Video Coalition-BAVC)
Best Narrative Film (ages 10-13):
“Lemonhood” (Future Filmmaker Workshops)
Kellen Abend, Luca Evans, Danni Hone, Leo Levy,
Ben Olivier, Jadon Seitz, Benjamin Share, & Jacob Share
Best Narrative (ages 14-18):
“Driven” Colin Patty (Cardinal Newman High School, Santa Rosa, CA)
Honorable Mentions:
Best Narrative (ages 14-18): “Roadkill” Alex Herz, (Hall Middle School, Larkspur, CA)
“Vantage” Cameron Billingham, (Bear River Valley School, Auburn, CA)

We would like to thank our jurors
Jenna Capozzi, James Hirsch, Alexandra Mende, and Henrik Rutgersson.

We would also like to thank Best Buy, California Academy of Sciences Museum, Central Marin Rotary, Disney Museum, San Francisco Film Society, Stefano’s Solar-Powered Pizza, and the Twin Cities Police Authority for their support and generous donations of prizes for the festival.

The Youth Film Festival was sponsored by the City of Larkspur.

We look forward to another great festival next year!