Monday, March 23, 2015
What You Missed: The White House Student Film Festival
The White House: A few months ago, we asked students across the country to create short films about the Impact of Giving Back, and to show us what service meant to them. We received more than 1,500 submissions this year, and this past Friday and Saturday, we screened our 15 Official Selections at the White House.
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I think it really sweet the White House launched this insinuative. There are several psychological studies that prove we are impacted by the media we see and create everyday. With that in mind, it is a universally known fact that no one lives a sad story and as cliché and unrealistic as it sounds everyone wants to see a happy ending. So it makes sense that this movies about making a difference would really have an impact because everyone wants to inspire positivity and sometimes a really heart-string pulling movie can really move people to get up and help. I do hope the white house continues to ask people to create these kinds of films and recognizes the one that do really drive the message of helping others into the ball park. For all the violence and negativity in the world, sometimes we all just need a reminder that good still exists. And the only reason happy ending feel cliché is because they often feel too good to be true, but just maybe someday happy endings will feel like the more realistic outcome.
Having an introduction video from kid president, who by the way has become a figure of sorts these past few years. Kid president similar to the President show his enthusiasm for all of those young people that go about doing something, creating, innovating, and collaborating with others to produce short films. It’s good to see that they are starting to promote educational and mentoring programs for young people across the country. Also, getting the different unions to become involved and volunteer their time to this next generation of film makers. It’s too bad that they didn’t show more glimpses as to what films were shown at the festival, it would help show the budding creativity and diversity out there that is coming up the alley. I hope that even though the commitment to mentoring is for the next three years, that they are able to keep the dedication going longer than what is expected of them.
This is so adorable! It's exciting that Obama and the White House are spending some time focusing inward on American culture and film. I really love that they're focusing on student films, glorifying the cool and weird projects that come out of a eight-buck movie. I think we, as consumers, spend too much time waiting for billion dollar movies to blow us out of the water when there are kids making movies that can make us cry, laugh, and commiserate for only a few hundred dollars. I watched a really heartbreaking documentary called Dear Zachary on Netflix a few days ago, and though the whole premise of the film wasn't about children's films, the documenter talked a great deal about how the small movies he made with his dead friend impacted his entrance into the movie business and how he saw his best friend after his murder. We need to start giving more respect to smaller budget films and letting creativity come from young children instead of overloading them with sensory explosions. There won't be any imagination left if we just hand it out to everyone at the box office.
I absolutely love this idea of incorporating kids into projects and presentations like this. Having kids apply themselves at a young age like this is both inspiring and refreshing. Personally, this is how I got my start in live performance art. I was doing a project for my schools film team for a volunteer organization in fourth grade and I haven’t stopped since. Also, the video that they posted with the Kid president was amazing and incredibly adorable. It’s even better that these kid art and film projects are being run and funded by Obama and the White House. It’s refreshing to see that people are putting time and money into art organizations to see that children are introduced to creative environments at such a young age. Like Nikki said, It’s nice to see that there are still good things in this world when there is so much negativity in the spotlight.
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