Historic preservation student film winners announced
LITTLE ROCK — Students from Jonesboro, Hot Springs and Fayetteville were the top winners in the fourth annual Arkansas Historic Places Film Prize competition of short documentaries focusing on historic properties throughout the state.
Carolyn Seglem of Jonesboro High School was the grand prize winner for her documentary “Rush Historic District.” The film, along with other prizewinning works, will be shown at 6 p.m. today at the Ron Robinson Theater,
100 River Market Ave. in Little Rock, as part of A Young Filmmakers Showcase, which will also feature winners of AETN’s Student Selects competition and winners of Thea Foundation scholarships. The free event is open to the public.
Other Arkansas Historic Places Film Prize winners were:
• First prize — Chase Hartsell of Lakeside High School, Hot Springs, for “Where The Best Milk Grows.”
• Second prize — Ian Linn, Noah Chacon, Collin Schultz and Jordan Giacalone, Fayetteville High School, for “Berry on the Square.”
• Third prize — Bella Warner, Obediah Kimmel, Harrison Bradford, Owen Hicks and Luis Ayala, Fayetteville High School, for “Wired to the Past: A Vision into the Future.”
• Fourth prize — Anna Wiener, Jonesboro High School, for “David O. Dodd.”
• Honorable mention — Logan Bailey, Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, for “Ghosts of Greenwood: Memories of Greenwood Elementary,” and Avery Barnett, Jonesboro High School, for “Little Rock YMCA.”
The Arkansas Historic Film Prize is sponsored by the AHPP and the Arkansas Humanities Council in partnership with AETN’s Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase.