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Sundog student film winners named
YELLOW SPRINGS — Several students from the Miami Valley won cash prizes for their original short films during the sixth annual Sundog Film Festival and Competition.
Drew Phipps, a senior at Bellbrook High School, won $200 for his film “Ghosts,” which was judged best of festival. Yellow Springs High School sophomore Nicky Sontag won $100 as runner up with “Windstorm.”
Best documentary honors and $100 went to Yellow Springs senior Nindy Silvie for “Misspelled?” Yellow Springs senior Ashanta Robinson’s “Self-Portrait, Two-Sided” was people’s choice winner.
Other $100 winners were: Nicky Sontag, Yellow Springs, “Puzzles,” best self-portrait; Erika Gruner, Centerville, “Clue,” best narrative; Kelly Miller, Yellow Springs, “Sweet on You,” best animation; Kelly Miller and Amelia Shaw, Yellow Springs, “Moushtik,” best comedy; Prentiss Haney, Stivers School for the Arts, “Life Stepped in, Part 2,” best experimental, and Leon Reichert, Yellow Springs, “If I Had a Million Dollars,” best music video.
$30 winners included: Colin Hopkins, Grove City High School, “Parkour”; Leon Reichert, Yellow Springs “9 to 5”; Philip Mercurio, Stivers, “Lola”; Kelly Miller, Yellow Springs, “Self-Portrait”; Rainor Tangvald, Cincinnati Country Day High School, “Self-Introductory Video”; Veronica Easley, Stivers, “When a Snail Attacks!”; Andy, Ash, Cameron Dethy, Sam Kreps and Colin Walker, Kings High Schook, “Wakka, Wakka”; Lawrence Harmon, Yellow Springs, “Shadow”; Amelia Shaw, Yellow Springs, “Crossroads”; Sam Kreps, Kings High School, “Electric Avenue”; Ellie Brombaugh, Aaron Derr, Tyler Schmall and Christina Sherwood, Fairmont High School, “Prom Tips: An Instructional Video,” and Seth Wooten, Kings, “Blobs in Love.”
Participating schools were: Bellbrook, Centerville, Cincinnati Country Day, Fairborn, Grove City, Kettering Fairmont, Kings, Oakwood, Shawnee, Stivers, Wilmington and Yellow Springs high schools; the Miami Valley Career Technology Center and McKinney Middle School.
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