Theater & Film Students Enter NH Short Film Competition



What do time travel, fortune telling, dystopian futures and a guardian angel have in common? Each is featured in one of the Theater & Film student submissions to this year’s New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival.


Twenty CRTC Theater & Film student-produced video submissions will be entered into this year’s statewide competition, sponsored by the New Hampshire Film Bureau. All submissions must be produced solely by the students, who also do the writing, directing, acting, filming and editing. Submission projects can have up to four crew members, and videos can be no longer than seven minutes.


“Last year we had one submission, so this year I’ve made submission a requirement for all year two Acting and Production and Design students,” said Clint Klose, Theater & Film teacher. “This is a great opportunity for our students to practice both their artistic and technical skills.”


Pembroke Academy senior Madeline Manchester submitted a compelling four-and-a-half minute film about teenage isolation and angst called a party. She said the project was a great opportunity to expand her knowledge and experience, as well as to network with like minded students and wider industry connections. 


“Making this has allowed me to independently and originally film, produce, and edit a short film project,” she said. “Statewide engagements like this give us a chance to make connections early on, and to grow more confident in our abilities to both create productions and learn how to improve.” 


Students can sign out one of the seven professional-quality video recording kits purchased by the CRTC last year, and utilize one of the two drone cameras owned by the program to film their projects, and they can edit all that footage at one of the 10 editing stations set up with Adobe Premiere editing software.


Students have struggled a bit this year due to COVID restrictions, so the cooperative nature of these projects limited the number of students who could be involved in any one submission, Mr. Klose said. But the film festival engagement overall has energized students and given them the opportunity to immerse themselves in a project that could give their talents a wider exposure, he added.

All NHHSSFF submissions are previewed and scored by a festival selection committee, who considers originality, cinematic storytelling, and technical execution. All films, regardless of type or genre, are judged on the filmmaker’s ability to effectively captivate an audience through cinematic expression. The festival places selections, beginning with the highest ranked film working downward, into the two-hour program block.


The winning collection will be screened at a ceremony at the Red River Theatres in Concord later this year. The top two selections will be screened at the annual New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth, and at the Somewhat North of Boston (SNOB) Film Festival at Red River this fall. Mr. Klose said that he will work out some way to showcase the CRTC submissions locally.


Click Here to learn more about the Theater & Film program.

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