2017 AYFF Playbill

1. About AYFF
The Austin Youth Film Festival is a non-profit organization that
seeks to give young, independent filmmakers the invaluable
opportunity to showcase their work before audiences of peers,
locals, and industry professionals. This serves the greater
goal of fostering a love of filmmaking that gives resonance to
the future voices of our community.
The festival was created and founded as a result of the efforts
of a handful of Austin film teachers, youth film programs,
filmmakers, and film lovers that work year-round to support
these students in finding their voice in this creative way.
Thank you for your attendance and support of local
filmmaking!
AYFF would like to thank our generous sponsors!
We would also like to extend a very special thanks to the
filmmakers who donate their time to the festival.
Want your organization here next year?
Contact our Development and Public Relations Dir., Carrie Cates at
C.evans@austinyouthfilmfestival.com for details!
This project is funded in part by the City of Austin
Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic
Department

2. Narrative Drama
Shattered
Created by: Evan Hadd, Hanna Botema, Ben Fern, Lydia Coleman,
James Murphy, Jonathan Anstead
LASA Highschool
Mementos
Created by: Jordan Pfeifer
Westwood High School
Best Friends
Created by: Caroline Ellenthal, Emma Clarke, and Abbie Bosworth
Westlake High School
Solemate
Created by: Hew Willis
Anderson High School
Wallpaper
Created by: Lee Rodriguez, Haley Bunn, Romy Bernard, Megan Yanez,
Geoff Price
Anderson High School
Awake
Created by: Tyler Taliaferro, Louisa Baldwin, Lexie DeStefano, and
Ethan Connett
Headwaters School
Double Date
Created By: Paul Plath, Thoren Claytor, and Miles Johnson
McCallum Fine Arts Academy
Forward
Created by: Ava Gorecki, Miles Kovalik, Ethan Henry, and
Emily Steinbomer
The Creative Action Youth Cinema Collective
Seven Minutes
Created By: Lee Donie, Anissa Clark, Angel Saenz, Emma Monreal,
Emily Steinbomer
Creative Action Youth Cinema Collective
Short/Short and Trailers
Zombie Experience
Created by: Lexie Guthan, Mark Kettle, Emma White, Erica
Guthan, Brooke Carter, Isaiah Watts, Gwen Rinaudo, Diego
Longoria, Sene Warren, Kristie Copeland
Every Swipe is Something New
Created by: Finn Sonniksen, Cainan Stuebgen,
Leo Schoch-Spana, and Michael Redman
Headwaters School
Narrative Comedy
Cup Check
Created by: Justin Lescano
Westwood High School
Attack of the Jellicles
Created By: Ander Echeverria
Cedar Ridge High School
The Magnum Opus of Derrik Waters
Created by: Jarvis Lister, Heather Landers, Alex Zuniga,
Chris Hawkins
Austin School of Film
Powdered
Created by: Paul Plath, Allison Moseley, Ken Rogers, Josh
Bell, and Patrick Costigan
McCallum High School

3. Music Video
Slow Town
Created by: Sydney Nielsen, Delia Lopez, Kat Cruz, Casey
Sullivan, Bill Dang
Anderson High School
RED
Created by: Ruby Esposito
Headwaters School
You & Me
Created by: Ruby Esposito
Headwaters School
Knight
Created by: An Nguyen, Miguel Posadas, Alex Zuniga
Pflugerville High School
*Ruby Red
Created by: Film Kids
Experimental
Into Eden
Created by: Sam Deroun
Huntington-Surrey High School
ONE
Created by: Grace Zhang and Emily Ma
The Hockaday School
Wounded
Created by: Sydney Nielsen, Amelia Bagnaschi, Emily
Steinbomer, Zion Flores, Presley Turner
Creative Action Youth Cinema Collective
*not in competition
Our Judges
The “AYFF Artist of the Year” is Paul Beck, a lead animator on
award-winning films including Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly
and, most recently, Tower.
Other special guest judges include the following
filmmakers:
Sharon Arteaga (When I Grow Up, Plane Pretend)
Micah Barber (Falconer, Into the Who Knows!)
Niran Babalola (Desegregate ATX)
Owen Egerton (This World Now, Follow, Master Pancake
Theater)
Marshall Escamilla (Tumble, Extra Credit)
Bryan Poyser (Lovers of Hate, Love & Air Sex)
PJ Raval (African Mayonnaise, Before You Know It)
Ashley Saunders & Leslie Saunders (The Pond, A Living
Rebellion)
Karen Skloss (Sunshine, The Honor Farm)
Jeanne Stern (Yizkor, Some Vacation)
Daniel Stuyck (Envy, The Eternal)
Tim Tsai (KLRU’s Austin Revealed: Pioneers from the East,
Yakona)

4. Film Lineup
Pre-Show:
Age Away
One Hour to Live
Trouble with a Moustache
Identity Blues
Sugar & Spice
Masked
Leaker
Iceland 2017
We the People
Round 1
• “No Talking PSA”
• Shattered
• Mementos
• Best Friends
• Solemate
• Cup Check
• Attack of the Jellicles
• Slowtown
• Sisterhood
• RED
• Wallpaper
• Austin’s Colony
• Into Eden
• You & Me
• Awake
Round 2
• Every Swipe is Something
New
• Zombie Experience Promo
• Double Date
• ONE
• Forward
• The Magnum Opus of Derrik
Waters
• Knight
• Ruby Red
• The Adventures of Pablo the
Fish
• Pflugerville Legend
• Wounded
• Seven Minutes
• Powdered
Screenplays in Competition:
Awake
Written By: Tyler Taliaferro
Headwaters School
Help
Written By: Sophia Sutter
Creative Action at West Ridge Middle School
Seven Minutes
Written By: Anissa Clark
Creative Action Youth Cinema Collective
Animation
The Adventures of Pablo the Fish
Pflugerville High School
Created By: James Bailey, Milani Cruz, and Samantha Pennell
Documentary
Sisterhood
Created by: Grace Foulkrod
Anderson High School
Austin’s Colony
Created by: Josiah Sanchez
Anderson High School
Pflugerville Legend
Created by: Arnold Icaro, An Nguyen, Emily Marshall, and
Ian McClure
Pflugerville High School