Studio Arts Student Work Featured in 2024 EDU Film Festival

May 23, 2024

Visual Arts and Media Arts students at the 2024 EDU Film Festival on Friday, May 17, 2024

Visual Arts and Media Arts student works were selected and screened as part of the 2024 EDU Film Festival on Friday, May 17, 2024. Several Perpich submissions were selected as finalists with some receiving Best in Fest awards! You may view their work and other student works from across the state here.

Khalid Ali, Media Arts Instructor, said, “It was a wonderful and well-organized event. It was great to see the variety of work being created by students from other parts of the state. I think many of us left the festival inspired to make films.”

Congratulations to the Perpich students who received Best in Fest recognition!

• Best in Fest – Best Documentary: “Living”, a film by Ivy Salmi-Perry (Media Arts 2024)
• Best in Fest – Best Micro Film: “Locker Code”, a film by Thomas Thro (Media Arts 2025)
• Best in Fest – Best Animation: “Morning: A Toilet Room Tale”, a film by Ella Shillcox (Visual Arts 2024)
• Best in Fest – Best Experimental: “Branched Gahenna”, a film by Thomas Thro (Media Arts 2025)
• Best in Fest – Minnesota Women in Film and Television: Emerging Filmmaker: “Back Again”, a film by Jorgiann Vander (Media Arts 2024)
  • Through the Minnesota Women in Film and Television, Jorgiann will also be awarded a one year membership to the organization.

And congratulations to all the Perpich students who were nominated:
Best Documentary: “Dodge Nature Center”, a film by Willow Bullen (Media Arts 2024)

Best Experimental: “Torii”, a film by Taiju Satomi-Defoe (Media Arts 2024)

Best Micro Film: “Morning: A Toilet Room Tale”, a film by Ella Shillcox (Visual Arts 2024)

Best Animation:

• “Out of Sight Out of Mind”, a film by Syd Holtz (Visual Arts 2024)
• “To Spite the Gods”, a film by Anjali Fra (Visual Arts 2024)
• “Train Ride”, a film by the animators of Perpich Arts High School (read more about this collaboration here)

Best Cinematography: “Awake”, a film by Esme Kershaw (Media Arts 2025)

Flip the Script Festival: LGBTQ+ Voices Award:

• Syd Holtz (Visual Arts 2024) for “Out of Sight Out of Mind”
• Walter Jung (Media Arts 2024) for “Stranded Students”

See the nominees and winners for 2024 EDU Film Festival here.

The EDU Film Festival serves an important role in the development of young filmmakers in Minnesota. EDU aims to provide young filmmakers with an authentic film festival experience, a valuable understanding of the film industry, and an opportunity to screen their movies in a theatrical setting.

By putting students together with Minnesota filmmakers, industry professionals, and post high school educational institutions, the EDU Film Festival also introduces the young filmmakers to the variety of film industry options available in Minnesota.

The EDU Film Festival provides a time and place for young filmmakers from all over the state to interact with each other, form friendships and partnerships, and to create a professional network of peers.