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WEEK of April 18, 2005
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Bridge Film Festival a Cinematic Sensation!

On Saturday, April 16, nearly 200 student filmmakers, together with their advisors, families, and friends, crowded into the BFS Meeting House for the sixth annual Bridge Film Festival, a celebration of films that depict Quaker values in action. A highlight of the evening was a conversation with filmmaker Shola Lynch, director of “CHISHOLM ’72: Unbought and Unbossed,” a documentary about Shirley Chisholm’s run for the presidency in 1972. Lynch took questions from student filmmakers and showed a clip from her documentary.

The “best of” winners are as follows:
Best Upper School Short film—Virginia Beach Friends School
Best Middle School Short film—Delaware Valley Friends School
Best Upper School Public Service Announcement—Friends Academy
Best Middle School Public Service Announcement—Friends Academy

Photos from top: Filmmakers from Quaker schools all over the United States came to the festival with their advisors. Crowding the BFS stage are the filmmakers for the 12 finalist films. Bridge Film Festival director Andy Cohen takes a question for featured filmmaker Shola Lynch, who reminded students that “…values in filmmaking are just as important as any other element in the process.” A distinguished panel of judges carefully considered each film and presented their findings at the end of the screening. Judges included Joe Vinciguerra, Steven Huang, Annette Kudrak and Zed Saeed.

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