Freese Film Festival

Door opens at 3:30pm
Screening starts at 4:00pm
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Brunch   5:34
Davey Kourtesis

The Beast   4:47
William Sokoloski

Whiteboard World 2:39
Nicole Miller, John General, Ryan Kalatucka, Nitara Mohabir

Chance   0:49
Sarah J. White

Immigrant Life Stories   15:00
Asian Arts Initiative & Termite TV Collective in collaboration with Xia Ou Huang, Uyen Le, Ling Lin, Duong Nghe Ly, Steven Ngo, Loc Nguyen, Christopher Pham, Annie Seng, Nancy Tat, Hao Truong, Xiu Fen Wang, Xiu Juan Wang

Lucid Dreams   3:02
Lydia Watson-Lewis, Sam Skoller

The Magic Box   5:18
Mike Plotz

The Time Portal   4:03
Thomas Emmet Ashton

Jurassic Park 4   1:40
Will Tutino, Andrew Adams

South Jersey BMX Documentary   7:51
Thomas Nguyen

Intermission 15 mins

Session #01   7:15
Colin Mazelis, Francesca Moran, Ryan Callahan, Pat Cunningham

Leap of Faith   3:20
Ilona Brand

The Grid: A Portrait of Energy in NEPA    4:13
Martin Lambert Steve Grzenda

Broken Ballerina   5:08
Natasha Liu

A Sedated Seat   2:34
Zoe Pulley, Anni Epstein, & Ethan Oberman

You Don’t Talk Circles   4:38
Oidie Kuijpers

Locked In   5:46
Jake Zlotnick

Amateur Night   1:13
Marian Ambito, Sam Niggli, Zahira Corrigan

I Had To   6:55
John Berchtold & Aaron Downs

Life   2:10
John General

Secret Club 3:16
Ben Kadie

The Orange and The Cat   1:50
Danielle Lee, Joe Osei

A Grandmother’s Guide to Relationships, or, How to Bake Very Good Cupcakes   5:40
Lily Brown

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Award Ceremony 6:10pm- 6:40pm

Thank you for sharing with us!

Thanks for your participation, the 2012 Freese Festival submission section has been closed! This year we have received over 100 entries. All the films are now in jury process.

Thanks again, and we will soon notify our filmmakers about the result soon.

Philadelphia, PA, United States

On February 26, 2012, Temple University’s Film and Media Arts Department will host the Derek Freese Film Festival, now in its sixteenth year, which offers youth filmmakers, ages 12 to 18, an opportunity to screen their work in front of their peers and other film professionals. The festival was created to honor the memory of Derek Freese, a graduate of the Temple film program, who passed away two days after arriving in Hollywood, California. His family decided to keep his love of film alive by founding the Derek Freese Foundation in 1997.

This year’s festival will be focused on local filmmakers in the Mid-Atlantic region. The categories for this year’s festival entries include fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, cinematography, editing, female filmmaker, and audience’s choice. Entry to the Derek Freese Festival is free, and we accept online and DVD submissions. All entries must be accompanies by an online entry form, please check our website for more information.

There will be a cash prize of $100 for each category. Submission will begin in December 2011 and the deadline will be Friday, January 30^th, 2012. All finalists will be notified before the festival and awards ceremony on February 26^th 2012. For more information, visit the FreeseFilmFestival.org or send e-mail to freese@temple.edu.

The 15th annual Derek Freese High School Film Festival, organized by Temple University Film & Media Department, wrapped on a cold day of December 11; for the first time, the festival was held in winter! More than 60 high school student films from all over the country were submitted to the festival, and eight distinguished judges, whose biographies can be found here, helped select the finalists. Cash prizes were provided by Derek Freese Film Foundation and craft awards provided by Sony, Cisco Systems Flip, GlideCam, and Focal Press were presented during the festival.

The Winners of the Derek Freese High School Film Festival are:

Best Fiction

First Place: Buy, Sell, Trade by Blair Scott, Emily Deering, and Amelia Elizalde.

Second Place: The Real World by Tony Meyer, Ryan Zemke, and Matt Law-Phipps.

Third Place: Perspectives of the End by Matthew Donato.

Best Documentary

First Place: Bar Ink by Spencer Miller, Georgia Peck, Robyn Cochrane, and Justin Smith-Mercado.

Second Place: Henry by Amelia Elizalde, Levi Friedman, Sheridan Koehler, and Sean Hendricks.

Third Place: Seattle Street Performers by Tony Meyer, Matthew Law-Phipps, and James Vitz-Wong.

Best Animation/Experimental

First Place: Armor by Matthew Donato.

Second Place: Blob Wars by William Sokoloski and Dan Kison.

Third Place: Repeat Offenses by Sam Skoller.

Best Screenplay

Animation/experimental
Rock Paper Legos by Dakota Jones and Michael Luna.

Documentary
Split Mind by Rikke Heinecke, Blair Scott, John Christensen, and Allie Stock.

Fiction
Signs by Rikke Heinecke, Tony Meyer, and Elizabeth O’Laughlin.

Best Cinematography

First Place: Baseball by Matthew Donato.

Second Place: I’m In A School by Matt Smeltz and Rowdy Callais.

Third Place: The Empty by Stephen Glawson.

Best Editing

First Place: O’ Captain My Captain by Ethan Oberman, Maclain Maier, Justin Heath, Kim Prioleau, Grace Gifford, Chris Robins, and Will Richardson.

Second Place: Late by Aaron Gartenberg.

Third Place: Choices by Marie A. Orlowski, Alex Porto, and Sam Anastasio.