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14 Royal Oak Students Win Statewide Film Festival Awards

High school filmmakers from across Michigan gathered in West Bloomfield for Orchard Lake Student Film Festival.

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ROYAL OAK, MI – Fourteen Royal Oak High School television and video students received awards at the 2016 Orchard Lake Student Film Festival held at West Bloomfield High School last weekend.

Winners included:

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1st Place: Austin McCauley – “Haiti”

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3rd Place: Hailey Davenport, Noelani Retz, Dalton Cymbal, Mary Sier, Becca Messner (Advanced TV Class) – “Youth in Poverty”

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2nd Place: AJ Carter, Matthew Perks, Haley Robinson, Gracie Novak (Advanced TV Class) – “Out of the Box Color Guard”

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2nd Place: Becca Messner – “Dollar Day”

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Best production Value (Short Film): Jarod Clark – “Mistaken Identity”

Best Editing Technique: Nick Kohloff, Teagan Lewis, Matt Harmon, Jarod Clark (Advanced TV Class) – “Broken Justice”

The Orchard Lake Student Film Festival is an annual event that offers high school filmmakers from across Michigan a chance to screen their films and learn from industry professionals.

The festival includes workshop presentations taught by area professionals, who work and/or teach within the professional film industry.

All of the films are screened and judged.

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