Seattle Times
After sifting through about 300 minutes (or 100 entries) of submission footage, the Seattle Times in collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival have selected the best 3 Minute Masterpieces from the lot. 11 winners were chosen in both youth and adult filmmaker brackets, which can be viewed in YouTube form on the Seattle Times site. Most of the entries were made in or around Seattle with a Reno, Nevada submission sneaking its way in. Filmmakers from ages 10 and up made it into the winners circle, including NFFTY frequenter, 16 year-old-director Ben Kadie. You also can see the 3 Minute Masterpiece films on the big screen (for free!) at 10 AM on Saturday, May 21, at SIFF Cinema, where the grand-prize winner will be announced. Check out “Ego Boost” a hilarious 3 minute knee-slapper by Seattle’s Ty Huffer below. Click the link above to see all the winning films and learn more about the 3 Minute Masterpiece competitions.
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NFFTY 2011 BING COMMERCIAL STARRING YOUTH FILMMAKERS
NFFTY 2011
Coming at you with another Seattle infused NFFTY 2011 promotional short from director Jesse Harris. Starring local youth filmmakers Ben Kadie, Megan Shinner and Sam Kelly, the Bing-sponsored video humorously follows the joys and follies of shooting film projects with friends. The filmmakers talk about their experiences with NFFTY and getting into film at an early age and what about the medium drives them most. With the help of Bing “the official decision engine of NFFTY 2011,” the filmmakers avoid disaster and get the dream shot. See if you can pick out the scenes shot in downtown Seattle, at Pike Place Market and Gasworks Park. Click on the NFFTY link above to learn more about the 2011 festival and NFFTY filmmakers.
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THE BELLEVUE REPORTER PROFILES BUDDING YOUTH FILMMAKER BEN KADIE
Bellevue Reporter
In a recent interview with Bellevue Reporter, local resident Ben Kadie speaks about his experiences as a prominent youth filmmaker over the years and divulges on his creative process. Currently a sophomore at Interlake High School, Ben has been making movies since third grade and has a knack for incorporating green screen and other special effects into his films. Seattle based youth film festival NFFTY has featured Ben’s uber-creative films in every one of their festivals the past four years. His most recent filmic acomplishment, receiving a Scholastic Art & Writing Award from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, can be viewed at Seattle Art Museum. There, his three-minute film noir, “Sparks in the Night” is being shown with the traveling exhibit ART.WRITE.NOW, which showcases select winners of the national writing award. The event is free and open to the public at SAM from now until April 24 during regular museum hours. Be sure to catch Ben’s latest film and other youth made movies at this year’s NFFTY from April 28 – May 1. You may stumble upon the next Spielberg, Kubrick, Lynch or Shelton! Read the full interview with Mr. Kadie at the link above and learn more about the “15-year-old Oscar winner in training.”
