2020 YOUNG FILMMAKERS PROJECT VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL NOW ON-LINE
Top 12 Finalists Screened and Winners Announced

The results are in…and the winners and finalists for the 2020 Young Filmmakers Project have been announced.  Chosen by a panel of five industry judges, the two-minute short films represent the best of young filmmaking across the state.

“The films and filmmakers keep getting better and better,” said Matt Storm with the South Carolina Film Commission.  “This crop was the best we’ve ever had and we’re excited to share them with the state.”

The Young Filmmakers Project is an annual filmmaking competition for South Carolina high school students, from the South Carolina Film Commission and Trident Technical College.  Designed to encourage media arts education and to explore the craft and career, it’s accompanied by a series of instructional programs such as screenings, meet-ups and panels with South Carolina crew and department heads.

The twelve finalists screened at the Young Filmmakers Virtual Film Festival on Saturday, May 23rd at 2pm, where the winners were announced. VIEW A RECORDING OF THE FILM FESTIVAL ABOVE.

The winners were:

FIRST PLACE ($500 Cash Prize):
Winner Winner
Durham Cribb
Myrtle Beach High School
Myrtle Beach, SC

SECOND PLACE ($300 Cash Prize):
Witness Protection
Dorian Del Valle, Jesse Stratford, Trevor Riney, Nigel Gaillard
Palmetto Scholars Academy
North Charleston, SC

THIRD PLACE ($200 Cash Prize):
Hit Play
Nick Bunge, Jessica Bunge
Catawba Ridge High School
Fort Mill, SC

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
A Short Cut Short
Ellison Mitchum, Paige Dionysius
Summerville High School
Summerville, SC

Actuality
Kali Altair
Myrtle Beach, SC

Click here for more information on the contest, including the Creative Challenge. All entries were required to use a cassette tape somehow as a prop.

The other finalists were:

Always Remember
Nico Ford
Lexington High School
Lexington, SC 

Lost & Found
Stephen Worsham
TL Hanna/AIT
Belton, SC

MISTER ANALOG
Yousuf Hasan, Atticus Porter, Noah Lopez, Nicholas Koopman
Clover High School
Clover, SC 

Turn Up the Mic
Jada Adams
Ridge View High School
Columbia, SC

Until Next Time
Brandon Waddell, Chase Preston, Matthew Vue, Chase Clickner
Clover High School
Sunnywood, SC

Walk Man
Caleb Trunkle, Sebastian Drusin, Max White, Samuel Lamar
James Island Charter High School
Charleston, SC

Within the Woods
Sarah McFeely
Eastside High School
Greenville, SC