Students from SAD 17 get their moment in the spotlight when their films are previewed.
PARIS – The glamour of a Hollywood film festival touched and scintillated a crowd of about 300 Thursday as they filled the high school auditorium for the 2003 M’ iMovie Festival.
Cara Maloney, one of the four festival directors, said 107 students from kindergarten through 12th grade and some staff film makers worked on entering 27 different films that varied from being entertaining to educational to informative.
The best of show award, the Otterson Award, went to “Invasion of the Lemurs,” a creation of writers Joe Merill and Seth Briggs, both sophomores. It tells the tale of an evil scientist and how he was making evil lemurs to take over the world.
The award was named for Mark Otterson, the former gifted and talented coordinator.
The Directors’ Special Award went to Oxford Elementary School students for producing “Kate Starbird,” the documentary of a well-known woman from Oxford.
The festival was named after Apple software used to edit movies.
Digital cameras
The festival began when directors Richard McIntosh, technology assistant at the high school; Nancy Hohmann, districtwide gifted and talented teacher; Luba Greene, a fourth-grade teacher at Waterford Memorial Elementary School; and Maloney, special education teacher at the high school, decided to do something with the 17 digital cameras Apple Computer gave the district two years ago after a large purchase of computer equipment.
Tara Maker, the Maine account representative for Apple, attended the festival and said her company was going to promote many of the ideas of this festival to other schools across the state.
The 27 films in the festival will be broadcast by Norway Paris Cable TV – Channel 2 at a date yet to be determined.
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