Student Celebrations
Ballard video students win at regional Emmy awards
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on June 2 recognized seven Ballard High School students in the video production program for their outstanding work.
The students won the High School Awards of Excellence at the 49th annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards, which honors the best in student television production.
The student-winners were:
• Ariahna Ghormley, Louis Weissman and Mackenzie Wright for Photography/Editing on their commercial for “Crash Landing Pizza;” and
• Walker Evans, Elise Neroutsos, James Vitz-Wong and Same Weller in the Long Form (Fiction) category for their sinister short “The Craft.”
The regional awards celebrate outstanding work from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Entries are judged by the same professional organization that selects Emmy winners, and were presented at the Northwest Regional Emmy Awards ceremony.
This makes the sixth year in a row that students in the Ballard High School Video Production Program have been winners at the event.
Five other Ballard High School video productions had also been nominated: two in the Writing category, two in the Public Service Announcement category, and two in the Photography/Editing category (making every nomination in that category a work from the Ballard High School Video Production Program).
For more information, visit www.bhsvideo.blogspot.com.
Photo from left are: Ariahna Ghormley, Mackenzie Wright, Walker Evans and Sam Weller.