TVT Southern California High School Film Festival

Show your talent and enhance your film portfolio in Southern California’s leading festival for high school students. The Annual TVT Southern California High School Film Festival aims to provide a platform for young high school filmmakers to showcase their work, receive feedback and inspire others. The Innovation Institute at TarbutV'Torah (TVT) in Irvine is putting on this festival as a way of bringing together the many excellent high school film programs in the area. The TVT Southern California High School Film Festival strives to provide a larger audience, more immediate feedback, and a culture of creativity in the Orange County area for devoted young artists. This year's event will be held on Saturday March 7th from 8:00-10:00 PM at The Frida Cinema in Sant Ana 305 E 4th St #100 Ca. 92701 Finalists must attend the event in order to receive their gift cards and trophy. This year's preliminary judges are: Javier Reyna - Reyna’s films include: Legwork, and Junk Drawer, and his most recent award winning film Regionrat. This year's finalist judges are: Dr. Erica Aguero - Chapman Film and Media Professor Dr. Aguero earned her Masters and PhD from the Cinema and Media Studies program at UCLA's Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. She is currently working on a book project entitled "Music That Moves: Television Music, Industrial Travel, and Consumer Agency in Contemporary Media Culture" Rachel Bass - A 2013 graduate of Amherst College where Rachel majored in Black Studies with a focus on Film. She creates stories that shine a spotlight on the injustice of the current status quo. She is a recipient of the Director’s Guild of America Student Award and is currently on faculty at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. The TVT Film Festival is an outgrowth of a film program that got its start 14 years ago under the inspired direction of Kim Hays: Film Studies, Digital Media, and Technology Teacher. In fact it is Kim Hays who created these programs at TVT. Tarbut V'Torah has put on a festival every year featuring the films made by the students in both the film program and the Jewish Studies program. As the popularity, intensity, and seriousness of the films and those who participated in the making of these films grew so has the scope of the festival. This is the fifth year it has been open to the community at large.