Short documentary films produced by students from Jonesboro, Hot Springs and Fayetteville took the top prizes in the fourth annual Arkansas Historic Places Film Prize competition.
Carolyn Seglem of Jonesboro High School was the grand-prize winner for her documentary Rush Historic District.
Her film and other recent prize-winning works will be shown at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. in Little Rock, as part of the Young Filmmakers Showcase. The event will also feature winners of AETN's Student Selects competition and winners of Thea Foundation scholarships.
The free event is open to the public.
First prize in the Historic Places Film Prize competition went to Chase Hartsell of Lakeside High School in Hot Springs for Where The Best Milk Grows.
Second prize was awarded to Ian Linn, Noah Chacon, Collin Schultz and Jordan Giacalone of Fayetteville High School for Berry on the Square.
Bella Warner, Obediah Kimmel, Harrison Bradford, Owen Hicks and Luis Ayala of Fayetteville High School finished third for Wired to the Past: A Vision into the Future.
Fourth prize went to Anna Wiener of Jonesboro High School for David O. Dodd, and honorable mention was awarded to Logan Bailey of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts for Ghosts of Greenwood: Memories of Greenwood Elementary and Avery Barnett of Jonesboro High School for Little Rock YMCA.
The Arkansas Historic Film Prize is sponsored by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the Arkansas Humanities Council in partnership with the Arkansas Educational Television Network's Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase.
Metro on 05/14/2018