Next 50 Neighborhood Video Project Winners Announced

Next 50 Civic Action Month yesterday announced winners of A Story Runs Through It: Neighborhood Film Project at a special Celebration and Awards held at SIFF Cinema Uptown. This concluding event of Next 50 Civic Action Month culminated a multi-month effort to engage and train communities in the art of filmmaking as a means to develop their own future narratives and establish closer ties between Seattle neighborhoods.

Filmmakers were encouraged to approach their topics through a variety of techniques including interviews with subjects, histories of events or locations, mythologies, fictions, examples of good works or local agents of change, and neighborhood needs or improvements. They could feature any part of the city, regardless of their residential address, in videos of up to three minutes.

Winners in the categories of Youth Filmmaker, Adult Filmmaker, Civic Relevance and Special Recognition were announced and screened at the Oct. 17 Celebration and Awards. In addition, the live audience voted for the Audience Choice Award. All film submissions can be viewed at: www.seattlecenter.com/thenextfifty/announcement_detail.aspx?aid=24.

YOUTH FILMMAKER AWARD WINNERS:
Lena Guevara, Better Food for Schools
Jac Trautman, Generations Away from the Duwamish
Tony Elevathingal, Issaquah

ADULT FILMMAKER AWARD WINNERS:
Megan Leonard, Peter Edlund & Rachel Klein, Love, Seattle
Shannon Snider & Stefanie Malone, The Night Shift
Andrew Storey & Elizabeth Wilmott, Our Neighborhood Garden

CIVIC RELEVANCE AWARD WINNERS:
Kiddist Emmanuel, Growing Food – Growing Community
Aurea Astro, Maggie’s Neighborhood Story
Briana Barrett-Squirrel, Opening Our Doors to Neighbors…and to Balance

SPECIAL RECOGNITION FILMS:
Rebecca Sims - Bridging Boundaries – Seattle’s Glocal Community
Erika Takeuchi, Defining Honor
Dacia Sáenz, Get on the Floor!
Shelby Barnes - It Takes a Man – Reflections of a Seattle Drag Queen
Patrick Doherty, Rain City Rock Camp for Girls
RecTech Interns, West Seattle Remix

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD WINNERS – a tie!
Dacia Sáenz, Get on the Floor!
Megan Leonard, Peter Edlund & Rachel Klein, Love, Seattle

Next 50 Civic Action Committee organized A Story Runs through It. AT&T is sponsoring the event, with additional support from Seattle International Film Festival, the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Swedish, Wyman Trust and MSN Postbox.

Next 50, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair ends on Sunday, Oct. 21, with a free Closing Day Celebration. For more information on this project and other outstanding programming offered at Seattle Center, visit www.seattlecenter.com or call 206 684-7200.

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