Date: March 16, 2012
Venue: ArcLight Cinerama Dome, 800 seats
Submissions: 150
Guest Speaker: Stacey Snider
Red Carpet Host: Jacob Soboroff
Judges: Dan Chuba (Hammerhead Productions), Rona Cosgrove (Paramount), Matt Ember (Get Smart), Mary Hart (Entertainment Tonight), Marilu Henner (Taxi), Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine), Tim Ryan (Rotten Tomatoes), Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society), Burt Sugarman (The Midnight Special), festival founder Elizabeth Yale
Workshop Leaders: Rona Cosgrove, Brian Gaffney and Stephanie Varlotta (Technicolor), Marilu Henner, Steve Pink
Directors: Olivia Chuba, Jamie Ember, Roz Naimi
Advisers: Cheri Gaulke and Ted Walch
Aave, 7:15
Amy West, director, ArtQuest @ Santa Rosa High School
A Day, 3:21
Jacob Weiss, director, Harvard-Westlake School
Baseline, 3:28
Dylen Papazian, director, Harvard-Westlake School, Lizzie Award for Writing
Be a Courteous Test Taker, 1:00
Mallory Arkin, director, Northwood HS, FilmEd Academy of the Arts, Lizzie Award for Sound Design
Beards, 2:00
Caitie Guttry, Chanel Samson, directors, Providence High School
Bonding Over Breakfast, 4:03
Alexa McLaughin, director, Idyllwild Arts Academy
Bookstore, 10:10, Founder's Award
Alex Haney, director, Harvard-Westlake School
Brother, 2:32, The Sally Menke Award for Editing*
Eric Brownrout, director, California State Summer School for the Arts
Chopsticks, 5:00
Philip Kim, director, Castro Valley High School
Getting Rid of Mormons, 5:12
Clio Gevirtz, director, SF Art & Film for Teenagers
Just to Say You've Won, 4:56
Joshua Larin, director, Bell High School
Learn the Difference/ Love our Families, 2:00, Humanitarian Award
Anjoum Agrama, Rebecca Hutman, Xochi Maberry-Gaulke, India Wilson, and Adam Yaron, directors, Harvard-Westlake School
Lessons in Filmmaking, 4:42, Lizzie Award for Acting
Sebastian Kleppe, director, SF Art & Film for Teenagers
Lucy, 10:47, Lizzie Award for Directing
Libby Blood, director, El Dorado High School, FilmEd Academy
Metro, 5:17, Lizzie Award for Best Overall
Eric Brownrout and Nick Escobar, directors, Calabasas High School
One Week of Danger, 2:58
Leland Frankel, director, Harvard-Westlake School
The Flight, 4:06, Director's Choice Award
Rebecca Maltby, director, Van Nuys High School Preforming Arts Magnet
The Text Can Wait, 0:42, Lizzie Award for Originality
Harrison Hudson, Lydia Janbay, and Spencer Ford, directors, Capistrano Valley High School, FilmEd Academy of the Arts
This PSA is Gay, 2:15, Lizzie Award for Graphic Design
Miranda Kasher, George Khabbaz, and Patric Verrone, directors, Harvard-Westlake Summer Film Program
She's a Doll, 5:33
Robert Vega, director, Harvard-Westlake School
We Used to Wait, 3:42, Lizzie Award for Cinematography
Tanner Merrill, director, Capistrano Valley High School, FilmEd Academy of the Arts
*In our desire to make visible the role women play in the film industry, we celebrate the career of Sally Menke, who tragically passed away last fall. She edited every Quentin Tarantino film and he called her his "only, truly genuine collaborator." Menke is part of a grand tradition of female editors that includes Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull), Verna Fields (Jaws), Dede Allen (Bonnie and Clyde), Dana Glauberman (Juno) and Anne Coates (Lawrence of Arabia) among many others.