By Brandon Nguyen, Staff Writer
Baron Broadcast News planned what they hope to be an annual film festival, however it’s off to a shaky start.
With Mackenzie Hill (’16) in charge, submissions were due April 22 with the actual festival this Friday. The film festival’s submission requirements were that the video had to be school appropriate and that its maximum length be five minutes. A problem arose when Hill realized that only eight submissions had been turned in.
“Since this a new thing that we’re trying at Fountain Valley High School,” said Hill. “We didn’t expect a big turn out.”
Despite having only eight submissions, Hill is confident in the festival’s potential. The film festival will continue with the eight submissions with the hope that it lays the foundation to something that will not only outlive the class of 2016, but also continue to succeed and grow.
“Our goal was that in future years it would be bigger and better; hopefully it will involve more people both in and outside of BBN and make it something awesome for the entire school,” said Hill.
In order to compensate for the lack of submissions, several changes have been made to the original event.
“The film festival this year will be a very casual and comfortable atmosphere,” said Hill. “Because we are just starting it up this year, it will be smaller, more intimate, because we intend on having it in the future to be bigger with more people with more submissions and encourage all students of Fountain Valley to express their creative talents through film making.”
Rather than opt for a formal setting, it has been decided that the festival should be more accessible. Therefore admissions is free.
The film festival will now not only allow students to view the work of their peers but also a few unaired BBN clips as well.
