Congratulations to our Filmmakers!

Cinemakids was founded in 2000 by Mary Celeste Kearney, a professor in UT’s Department of Radio-Television-Film, in order to honor young filmmakers and to inspire other youths to see film production as a fun hobby, a means of creative expression, a form of civic engagement, and a possible profession. We just received this letter from Cinemakids:

Congratulations! Your students' films -- TOO PLUGGED IN, JUST LIKE YOU, and WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL -- have been selected for the Cinemakids 2010 screening program. The selection committee unanimously agreed that these films should be in our program, and we sincerely hope that our screening of them will bring your students the recognition they deserve as up-and-coming young filmmakers.

The 2010 Cinemakids screening will take place on Saturday, September 18 in Austin, Texas. We hope you and your students will be able join us. If that looks like a possibility, please let me know so that I can send further details about the time and location of our event.

Thanks again for submitting these entries to Cinemakids, and congratulations on their selection for our 2010 program!

All the best,

Mary Celeste Kearney
Cinemakids

Mary Celeste Kearney, Director
Department of Radio-Television-Film
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station A0800
Austin, TX 78712-0108
Office: 512-475-8648
Fax: 512-471-4077
mkearney@mail.utexas.edu
http://rtf.utexas.edu/cinemakids/

Carbon Foodprint Study at the Santa Fe Farmers' Market

In the fall of 2009, the students in the 5th/6th grade class at Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences were asked the following questions: "Where does our food come from?"; and "How do we get our food?"

Read more about it.
Download here.

Teens' film shows dedication to diversity
Nationally aired film celebrates the uniqueness of being human

Ana Maria Trujillo | The Santa Fe New Mexican, Saturday, May 08, 2010. Download here.

Just in case you haven't yet checked them out, please consider taking a minute to see two short films our Middle School students made this year using footage of Sudan filmed by National Geographic photographer, Karin Muller. Our school was chosen to be a part of her organization, Take 2, which shares international footage with high school students and empowers them to make films. She told me that we were the only middle school chosen.

You can view these two short films, 'If' and 'Down The Drain' at: http://take2videos.ning.com/video/video Just look for the two film titles and click! Each are under 2 minutes long.

Student Community News in February 2010
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Each year, the Santa Fe New Mexican Newspaper sponsors a holiday writing contest. There were 423 entries this year from all over New Mexico and our students won 8 of the 18 prizes for which students were eligible! This is the third year in a row that our students have won several awards in this competition! For the past three years, our school has held the record for the most awards won by any one school. The judges choose the winning pieces without knowing which school each writer attends.

Congratulations to:
Mima Obo- First Place Teen Stories
Lucas Weiss- Third Place Teen Stories
Zascha Fox- Second Place Children Stories
Brenna O'Brien- First Place Teen Essays
Jose Byrne- Second Place Teen Essays
Arryel Griego- Andraud- Third Place Teen Essays
Alicia Sandoval- Second Place Children Essays
James Fulreader- Second Place Children's Poetry

(You had to be 13 or older to qualify for the teen writing category, which means that our teens were competing against high school students!)

You can see and print up all of the winning stories at the Santa Fe New Mexican website.

We also plan to hang the winning stories in the Middle Earth Lobby after break.

Congratulations to all of our wonderful writers!

SANTA FE STUDENT STATE-WIDE WINNER IN LIONS INTERNATIONAL PEACE POSTER CONTEST. Santa Fe Home Town News, January 21, 2009. Read all about it here or download here.

From left, Arin Dineen, 17, Corey Mandel, 18, and Elizabeth Fulreader, 17, work on silk screening T-shirts Wednesday at the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences. The teens partnered to form Awearness, a group dedicated to raising money for charity by designing and selling T-shirts that spread awareness on social issues.

Santa Fe New Mexican, January 10, 2009

Priscilla Roberts, left, clinical director of Youth Shelters, serves food to Jose Bryne, 12, and Kamon Tari, 13, from the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences during Friday's grand opening of the Street Outreach Resource Center of Youth Shelters and Family Services. The students are part of an after-school organization that promotes peace around the world. The new resource center, which offers support services to homeless, runaway and high-risk youth, is at 402 St. Francis Drive.
Santa Fe New Mexican, December 6, 2008