Annual film festival turns five

SUBMITTED BY
EARLENE WARD
for the sierrastar

The Fifth annual Oakhurst Regional Film Festival was held in mid May at Yosemite High. YHS student winners were:

Overall winner, “Shut Eye Theory,” Jake Lownsbury, Zach Presho and Chad Mooney; second place, “Hand Guns,” Cody Campbell, Tim Williams, Tim Springer and Jessica Tucker; second, “Virtual Boy,” Cameron Tsang, Ben Hensley and Alex Holmes; second, “The Great Escape,” Tsang, Hensley and Holmes. Honorable mention, “If It Takes All Night,” Brittany Gorman. Junior high winners were students from Jon Corippo’s class at Coarsegold Elementary.

The overall winners received $200; second place and honorable mention received $100.

This year’s Film Festival was organized by YHS EAST students Geoff Kramer and Tim Jarrell. It was sponsored by Rusty Murphy and the MET Cinema and Harry Hammerling of Hammertech, Inc. There are categories for pre high school, high school and post high school. This year there were entries from YHS and from students at Coarsegold Elementary.

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