‘Shed Creep,’ by Morristown High students Fiona Mullen and Brian Honicky
These videos should whet your appetite for the Third Annual Morristown High School Film Festival.
Shed Creep and Aperture are examples of past works by young filmmakers who are competing for prizes tonight, June 5, 2015, at 6 o’clock, in the school’s media center.
The theme is “New Jersey,” and subjects run the gamut from Taylor Ham to the Underground Railroad, said Mike Butler, head of the MHS broadcasting department.
“I think as far as overall quality, this is the best year so far,” said Butler, a former director for Court TV (now TruTV).
Aperture, the story of a photographer going blind, earned second place honors for students RJ Meyer, Abigail Semple and Nicholas Slackman at the New Jersey High School Film Festival at Stockton State College.
Shed Creep, a documentary by Fiona Mullen and Brian Honicky about a South Jersey couple who make surfboards, took third place in the same competition.
It also was among four MHS films to compete this week in a festival hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University at the Morris Museum.
Mullen and Semple are past winners of the MorristownGreen.com Film festival as well.
In all, 20 short videos will be screened at the MHS Film Fest.
An anonymous donor has contributed moviemaking equipment as prizes. Judges are Mark Ehrenkranz, impresario of the New York Film Critics series; Ben Donnellon, a filmmaker and MHS alumnus; and Maddie Orton, arts reporter for NJTV.
Subjects explored by this year’s students include immigration, homelessness, the sounds of Patriots Path, Morristown cemeteries, a demon tree and women’s roller derby.
Admission is free and all are invited.
‘Aperture,’ by RJ Meyer, Abigail Semple and Nicholas Slackman
