July 12-29, 2001
Co-presented by the NEBRASKA FILM OFFICE


Youth Media
The following entries are presented for this category.

America Inside Out
Children's Media Project
Run Time: 3 minutes

America Inside Out is a paper cut-out animation created collaboratively with the Children's Media Project and a group of seventh-graders concerned with representing American Culture. All aspects of the piece are child-produced, including an original score.

Chelsea's Prediction
Elisabeth Reinkordt
Run Time: 21 minutes, 26 seconds

A high school senior predicts another's future in an exploration of every teenager's questioning process--"what will happen with my life?"

For the Love
Ryan Tiedgen
Run Time: 30 minutes

This is a skateboarding video featuring 4 of Lincoln's best skaters. It is to show how the sport should be accepted as a fun and creative activity instead of being banned, and how we do what we do for the love of skateboarding.

Leadbelly and Irene: Heartbeat of the Musical Frontier
Megan Stewart
Run Time: 10 minutes

This film tells the story of Huddie Ledbetter's life. He was a pioneer on the frontier of music in the 20th Century. It uses oral history interviews and primary documents to show his impact.

Smashing the Myth
Listen Up!
Run Time: 50 minutes

This is a compilation of young women's work from all across the United States. Taking on sexuality, feminism, consumerism, racism, diversity, self-identity and other critical issues, these young women are smashing the stereotypes they've been assigned by the mainstream media.

Taff-E
Robert Yanike and Shawn Gourley
Run Time: 4 minutes

A modern day version of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme "Taffy was a Welshman".

The Great Rescue
Mike Corkle
Run Time: 5 minutes, 45 seconds

Created as a class project where students would have to write and present a story that dealt with various water levels of a bathtub at certain points in time. The students involved in this project wanted to make a video that resembled an old 1920's film.