Shorecrest, Shorewood students win film awards

Front row are Shorewood and Shorecrest video teachers
Marty Ballew and Trent Mitchell with their award-winning students
Photo courtesy Shoreline Schools

Shorewood and Shorecrest film students won multiple awards at the Northwest High School Film Festival this week.

This is the largest high school film festival in the United States, comprised of more than 30 schools from the Puget Sound area who converge at the Cinerama theater in downtown Seattle for one day of screening the best of the best from hundreds of film submissions.

Bogui Adjorlolo of Shorecrest won
two Awards of Excellence
and two filmmaking scholarships

Leading the way was Shorecrest student Bogui Adjorlolo who not only won two “Awards of Excellence'" but also won the JDogg and Prodigy filmmaking scholarships.

Awards of Excellence:

• Bogui Adjorlolo and Isaac Pauls: Drama
• Bogui Adjorlolo: Music Video
• Annie Cha: Music Video
• Rhys Kroehler: Animation
• Michael Telstad: Satire
• Davis Towne: Art Film
• Andre Stepanov: PSA
• Julia Juarez-Kostelnik: Documentary

Honorable Mention:

• Kendall Yoder: Drama
• Adam Opfer: Animation
• Meagan Horman: Music Video
• Tiffany Palomino: Educational/Informational/Instructional
• Davis Towne: Dramatic Narrative
• Melanie Tran: Dramatic Narrative