DSA Students Fare Well At Denver Academy Film Festival

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DAFFY - the Denver Academy Film Festival for Youth - took place this Saturday, May 11 at the University of Denver.

Students represented middle schools and high schools along the Front Range. There were 17 awards given and students from Denver School of the Arts - including Video Cinema Arts and History Day class students - received nine of those awards.

One film, “Somnium,” won Best Picture and will be featured in the Denver International Film Festival this October.

The awards won by DSA students were:

Social Commentary
“If Hitler Asked You To Electrocute A Stranger Would You?”	David Taylor, Nicole Lavlier, Tristan Svenddal-Edmondson, Corine Roberts-Neimann
Best Animation (Middle School)
“It Came From Somewhere”	Logan Phillips

Comedy Short
“Public Restrooms”1	Iyabo K. Boyd
Best Documentary
“Red Revolution: China’s Civil War”	Arys Subiadur, Sean Sponsler, Max Vince
Best Picture
“Somnium”	Cole Eggen, David Taylor, Ryan Cooke
Best Drama (Middle School)
“The Gossiper”	Jillian Jones, Renee Couturier, Miriam Brizendine
Best Animation
“The Stop Clok Harvest: Part 3”	Cole Eggen
Best Musical
“Tumbleweed”	Sarah Lowenstien, Corine Roberts-Niemann
Best Documentary (Middle School)
“Women’s Sufferage: First the West, Then the Nation”	Lila Loomos Creighton, Sarah Rose Godde

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