All Entries 21st Bridge Film Festival 2020
23 films from 10 schools!
Documentaries
A Special Blend
Category - Documentary
New Garden Friends School
Angelic Troublemakers
Category - Documentary
George School
Awbury:
A Community Green Space
Category - Documentary
Germantown Friends School
A student-produced documentary about the Awbury Arboretum and the importance of green spaces in urban environments. Filmed and produced by high school students at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, PA.
This Vox Pop was produced by Beatrice Farquar-Jones from The Friends' School, Hobart, Tasmania.
Climate Change
Category - Documentary
Tandem Friends School
A TFS student documentary about climate change, created for the Bridge Film Festival.
Meals for Kurt
Category - Documentary
San Francisco Friends School
A couple years ago, I was helping my mom make a promo for Meals on Wheels for her job as a professional photographer. She invited me to help her for the day and take portraits of homebound seniors who are clients of this program. I jumped at this opportunity knowing that it would be a great experience to learn and have a different perspective of what it’s like to live in San Francisco. We visited three clients, and the one who stood out to me the most was a man named Kurt who lives in the Mission District. For the next 6 months after meeting Kurt, I couldn’t stop thinking about him. I wanted to take Kurt’s story and my love of media and film to make a documentary about him. I told my mom about this, and she reached out to her friends at Meals on Wheels. Three months later, I shot the documentary, and despite a few setbacks, I’m pleased with the final cut. I storyboarded, directed, and edited this video, and after mentioning my project to a teacher at Friends, she encouraged me to submit it to the Bridge Film Festival in March. I am also very excited to share it with you.
The New York State Plastic Bag Ban
Category - Documentary
Mary McDowell Friends School
A video compiled by MMFS 6th grade students under the direction of current events teachers Jenny and Annabel, to address the upcoming ban in NYS on plastic bags.
Vox Pop
Anti-Protest Legislation
Category - Documentary
The Friends' School
This was very recently completed during Bea's studies this year in the TCE Media Screen y11/12 course, taken by students in Tasmania. TFS students also have the option to engage in the International Baccalaureate course.
Narratives
A Chat with Dave
Category - Narrative
George School
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Fixated
Category - Narrative
The Friends' School
The culminating component of the Year 7 Connections program is a four-day Film Festival, where students work in a group of 7-8 students to plan, film, edit and present a three-minute short film connected in some way to one of the key Quaker testimonies: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Earthcare. Each year there is a different symbolic prop, which must be incorporated in a creative and meaningful way. The symbolic prop for 2019 was ’gift’, which could be interpreted literally or metaphorically. One of the most outstanding films of 2019 was ’Fixated’, presented by Red A.
Heads or Tails
Category - Narrative
The Friends' School
Optimists Of The End
Category - Narrative
Brooklyn Friends School
Four dudes chillin at the end of the world, but it's more like three are chillin, cause one of them is not
Quaker House
Category - Narrative
Olney Friends School
That's So Gay
Category - Narrative
Tandem Friends School
A middle school student confronts a friend about using the word "gay" in a derogatory way and asks for help and support from that friend and a teacher. This it TFS's middle school narrative submission to the 2020 BFF.
New Media
Germaphobe
Category - New Media
Tandem Friends School
Spicy Spices
Category - New Media
George School
Music video.
The IMPeRFeCT Story
Category - New Media
Germantown Friends School
A student-produced film about the IMPeRFeCT Gallery, a local art gallery and community of artists in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Filmed and produced by high school students at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, PA.
Public Service Announcement
Climate Change
Category - Public Service Announcement
Tandem Friends School
Out of the Blue
Category - Public Service Announcement
George School
PSA Bridge Film Festival 2020
Category - Public Service Announcement
New Garden Friends School
The Blob
Category - Public Service Announcement
Friends School Mullica Hill
MOS - SilentNon - Competitive (Exhibition Only)
For My Country
Category - Non - Competitive (Exhibition Only)
George School
Gifted
Category - Non - Competitive (Exhibition Only)
Tandem Friends School
A young woman, gifted at playing the cello gets ready to perform for a concert. Her beloved music teacher makes a mistake and learns a lesson about her own racial bias.
No Phonies
Category - Non - Competitive (Exhibition Only)
Brooklyn Friends School
Generations of people the world over have read J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel, The Catcher in the Rye. But very few get the opportunity to immerse themselves in the mood, setting, and character as our BFS 9th graders did on October 16. In this edition of THE LIFE, come on the journey of BFS students and their English teachers as they retrace the steps of Holden Caulfield at iconic New York City sites, such as Grand Central Station, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, and the Central Park Carousel.
