Lindbergh Filmmakers Become Their Own Stars at Festival

The 2nd Annual Film Festival at Lindbergh High School Friday night hosted the showing of 10 short films by students. All the filmmakers showed extraordinary ability with the medium, and while subject matter varied, every entry had a humorous edge and relevance to typical teen lives.

Sophomore John Kovacs took 1st Place with Film Festival Film Film edited in Sony Vegas.  

Junior Wesley Shiflet took 2nd Place with A Day in the Life. Shiflet won 1st Place last year with his film Straw.

The entries were all under 14 minutes in length and shown on the big screen in the high school auditorium beginning at 6 p.m.

Film Festival founder, Lindbergh junior Michael Rich, said he started the festival because he likes filmmaking.

"I felt alone, so I wanted to start this and show what all the other talented people here were doing," Rich said.

Judges were the same pair as last year, Rich said, Oscar Davis who has appeared on TV5 and Mat De Kinder of Suburban Journals.

Patch hopes to feature each student filmmaker and their video on the site, soon.

Entrants, film titles and length for the Lindbergh High School Film Festival 2011:

John Kovacs

• Film Festival Film Film      9:59 minutes  

Wesley Shiflet

• A Day in the LIfe    12:42 minutes

Michael Rich

• Paranormal Investigators 13:40 minutes
• Opening Video     2:41 minutes   
• Everybody's Got A Story to Tell    3:45 minutes  (non-competitive)

Charlie Kovacs

• Felis Xenomorph   5:54 minutes

Jacob Virtue

• The Scooter Gang  2:48 minutes

Jeremy Brown, Tyler Brennan

• Father Dickson Cemetery   6:17 minutes
• The Pen is Blue     5:11 minutes

Kurt Steinke, Randy Hussey, Patrick Jones, Derek Massey

• Terminator: The Dr. Luebbert Chronicles   3:21 minutes
• Luebbert Strikes Again    4:17 minutes