NORWAY – Student filmmakers from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School were downtown last week shooting one of a number of films they hope to showcase to the public in April.

Seven of Tim Ouillette’s students in advanced communications and new media spent the morning shooting a sequence from a film directed by Anyah White. Each student writes and directs their own film as part of the two-year program.

“The class touches on different medium,” explained Ouillette, who says the work is often experimental. “You take everything you learned and then forget about it. It’s a lot of fun.”

Thursday’s segment, which White wrote and directed, was about a teenager who moved to the area and had no friends.

“It’s a work in progress,” said White of the film that took several months to get to the filming stage.

Ouillette said each year the student films are shown at the school. Last year, so many people showed up that he hopes to get permission to show them at a local movie theater next month.

The students in Thursday’s film work in addition to White were: Cody O’Connor, Elijah Allen, Molly Petrowski, Mallory Martin and Ethan Jones.