For 15 years, students of all ages across Canyons School District have competed in the annual CSDtv Film Festival. Each festival entry is directed, acted, and produced by a student or teacher, from documentaries and shorts to podcasts and stop-motion creations. One winner comes out on top in each age bracket and category.
This year was the first year students at Entrada High School chose to compete in the film festival, which drew 242 entries from 610 contestants. Not only did they excel, they won the category of High School Documentary.
“I didn’t think we were going to win. It’s so cool that we won, especially with the whole process we went through,” says Michelle Nolaca, one of the student directors of, “Students of Entrada – Voices of Tomorrow.”
Production for the film began long before students even picked up a camera and shouted, “action!” At the beginning of the school year, Entrada teacher Baylee Riley applied for an Innovation Grant through the Canyons Education Foundation.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Connect Canyons, a podcast sponsored by
Canyon School District.
This is a show about what weteach, how we teach and why we
get up close and personal withsome of the people who make our
schools great Students, teachers, principals, parents and more.
We meet national experts too.
Learning is about makingconnections, so connect with us.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
For 15 years, students of all ages from across
Canyon school districts havecompeted in the annual CSDTV
Film Festival.
From documentaries to shortfilms, podcasts and stop-motion
creations, students write film,act and direct their films,
which are then pitted againstother films in the same age
bracket, with one winner comingout on top in each category.
(00:46):
Welcome to Connect Canyons.
I'm your host, frances Cook.
This year.
It was the first year thatstudents at Entrada High School
chose to compete in the filmfestival.
But not only did they compete,they won their category of high
school documentary.
So I'm joined today by Entradateacher Bailey Riley, as well as
some of the students who workedon the film Isi Lau, jackson
(01:08):
Stevens and Michelle Nolasco.
Thank you all for joining us.
Bailey, I'd like to start withyou.
This goes farther back thanjust entering the film festival.
You recently received a grantfrom the Canyons Education
Foundation.
Can you walk us through?
You know how you applied forthe grant what it was like
(01:31):
receiving that.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Just lay out that whole story for us Back in
September is when I startedtyping out and meticulously
planning out what I wanted to dowith this project, before we
even applied for it.
Before even the class began,mark and I actually had the
conversation about what wewanted this class to be about
and what we wanted to do, and wehad this vision of what we
(01:53):
could possibly submit for thefilm festival and ideally, we
needed equipment to produce thebest film that we could possibly
produce.
So I typed out and I had thehonor of online shopping on
Canon and other websites as wellto try to find anything that I
(02:17):
felt like the best items toproduce the film that we needed
to produce.
So I decided on cameras.
So I applied for full grant of$6,000 so we could receive three
camera setups so we could havethree rigs for our teams to
initially have enough coverageto record our documentary.
(02:38):
I applied didn't hear back forabout a month or so for the
Canyons Education Foundation togo through all of the
applications and decide on whothey wanted to grant the money
to.
So actually I was here atEntrata teaching my graphic
(02:59):
design class for the first timeever, and Mark suspiciously
emailed me the day of asking ifI was going to be on campus and
I said of course, I'm going tobe teaching my class today.
I was teaching my class and hecame, knocked on my door and all
of a sudden, the Board ofEducation members Canyon's
(03:19):
Education Foundation startedrushing into my classroom.
And then we came out as welland all of the students were
outside clapping for us and wewere awarded with a check a big,
big check of $6,000, our fullgrant that we wanted to receive
to get everything that we wishfor.
So it was our dream all of theequipment that we wanted to
(03:42):
accomplish what we needed to,and without this we wouldn't be
able to do so.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
That was a really great moment too, getting all
the students involved and havingthem in the hallways and
cheering for you.
You could kind of see theexcitement on everybody's faces.
Let's go to the decision tomaking a film for the film
festival.
Was it a class project?
Did you guys decide to do it?
Walk me through how it all wentdown.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
We were more just trying to depict the stories and
the impacts of the obstaclespeople have had to hop over to
get through to get here to thishigh school and to be motivated
enough to learn and for theirlife.
And some of these people'sstories here are really touching
and yeah, I mean, that's whatwe were trying to depict in our
film was just everyone's stories, how they overcame everything.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Our teacher, bailey, did give us, like other options.
At first she showed usdifferent like types of films of
what we could possibly want todo and we've seen this
documentary and I think thewhole class liked this.
We found like, oh okay, maybeit'd be interesting if we were
to like like he said, you know,go around the school and hear
(04:50):
about other people's stories andstuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It was really fun, I enjoyed it, I think the first
day I asked them what is onething that you all have in
common, what is similar storythat you have?
And it is adult education.
How did you get here?
And they all had differentstories of how they ended up at
(05:15):
Entrada, but they all pursuedtheir education and all pushing
on, which is super honorable.
And when you hear theirbackgrounds and you hear their
stories when I heard theirstories I was brought to tears.
Honestly, they're utterlyamazing students and what they
produce you can see it in theirfilm, you can see their passion
(05:37):
and you can see what they'vegone through the triumphs as
well.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, I think you're right.
I feel like you know you getthat emotion from.
You know you have documentariesthat you're watching it and
you're like, okay, this isboring, you know, and okay, I'm
learning facts, but to watchyour documentary, which is
entitled Entrata Students'Voices of Tomorrow, you can see
the passion in it.
It takes a lot of work, too, toput something like that
(06:04):
together.
I'd like to know, you know,what kind of expectations did
you have going into making thisfilm?
And then, was the work that youput into it the same as you
expected?
Isi, would you like to leave usall it?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
honestly came out way better than I thought it would.
I don't know.
I just I wasn't thinking thisvideography class was going to
be too crazy.
And then I saw the equipmentthat we're using and when I saw
the video I was like surprised.
It was great, but yeah, Iwasn't really expecting anything
(06:39):
from it.
Still crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I think our expectations were.
So we have to have the videounder five minutes, right,
that's the expectations.
We did get the five-minute mark.
It was really a strugglebecause there's so many people
who you like to interview, butwe had to pick out what we felt.
These kids are people who haveovercome even harder obstacles.
(07:02):
We had to choose some storiesover others, try to make some
fit.
I mean, it would have beennicer to have an hour-long
documentary and have all thepeople's stories in here, but
you can't do that all the time.
But that's upcoming, that's forthe future.
We're working on it.
So don't worry guys, it'scoming out, it's a full
documentary movie.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Nice.
I also thought it would bepretty easy, but With our
five-minute time limit it washard because, like he said, a
lot of these students' storiesthey were interesting and they
were definitely longer than fiveminutes, so it was a challenge,
(07:40):
but I don't know.
I enjoyed it with the camerastoo and learning everything
about the cameras.
That was really fun.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's hard to kind of trim those stories down.
You think five minutes, oh,that's plenty of time.
But when you want to telleveryone's story and you know,
do it justice.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, then you have to trim it down and then you
miss like one part of theirstory and then like everyone's
lost.
Like what did that happen likefive years ago?
How are they here now?
Like, yeah, If you guys havethe full film, we'll let you
know.
It's coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Nice teaser.
I like it.
What was your favorite part?
Were there parts that were moredifficult than others?
Were there parts that you'lljust take with you?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
My favorite part is easy.
We work so hard getting thoseshots Because those were the
first days of production whenthe kids I don't want to call
them kids, let's just have itthose were the first days of
students learning the cameras.
And if you didn't see in theother shots when we the cuts
(08:43):
before that, the students areunderneath the desks and hiding
with the lights and with themics, just hiding behind them,
and it's just take Jackson andscreaming behind the desk okay,
take, roll.
It was so fun to see them justthrive in production and take on
these roles so naturally justusing the environment around and
(09:07):
everything you see.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
you were kind of the model walking through the school
sitting down in the classroom.
That was a lot of pressure.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
It was nothing.
I like being the main attention.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I think EC did perfect.
He was like it was perfect andyeah, he fit the end show really
well and I feel like, yeah, Imean I don't know it's easy for
you guys.
There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, I just do what I can.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You fit the vibe of the school.
I think that was a common themethat you guys wanted to portray
is you wanted to portrayEntrada as it truly, truly is,
that it's not like any otherhigh school in Canyons district.
It's not like Corner Canyon,where I teach at full time.
It's a completely, completelydifferent school.
(09:56):
Now, when you walk in, I meanthey're walking in in the dark
and it's rough music and it'svibing and they're walking in
and they're kind of swaying andhaving their time and yeah, it's
just them.
And then when they come in,it's just a whole switch and
they're happy and engaging andpositive and just it's amazing.
(10:21):
That's what Entrada is and theycaptured it perfectly.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well said, Baylor.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I think my favorite part was just filming.
I'm really nosy, so I likeknowing people's life, you know.
So I found it fun when we wereable to pull out students.
It was actually surprising howmany students actually wanted to
talk and say their stories.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
We did get denied a lot, but yeah, we got denied by
probably like well, like weprobably got maybe one person
out of each classroom and we gointo another classroom and try
to get more people.
Everyone else was like no, justall doing their work.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
But the stories we got.
I don't know.
That was my favorite part, justknowing how similar but
different we all are.
You know, like all of ourstories, I feel like I just
found it so cool and you got thehonor of doing interviewing
Stephanie.
Mainly correct, yes yeah, theirstories were.
(11:18):
I think their stories was oneof my favorites because they
really got deep yeah, it isreally cool to hear.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You see these people in the hallways every day and
you don't expect what they'vebeen through.
Yeah, exactly, you say hi andyou think you know them.
But to get at that deeper level, that's a treat.
Yes, so let's jump to the nightof the film festival.
Y'all showed up with literalbells and whistles, like you
were ready to celebrate, nomatter what Talk about what it
(11:49):
was like being there.
How did you feel?
Were you nervous?
Were you excited?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I mean I was a little nervous.
I didn't really expect us towin.
I mean I saw how great all theother films were.
They were amazing.
I mean I got some contactinformation from some people
there and follow them onInstagram and I'm watching their
films.
Like their animations areamazing.
Like I want to strive to belike that one day.
I want to learn animation, butlike I don't think I ever will
because I don't have thepatience for it.
They were great films, like theelementary films.
(12:15):
They were so funny and I I feellike we needed those hands and
whistles because we needed toshow our support for them and I
didn't feel like that's the win.
But then we did and I walked,we walked up there and I was
like, okay, we're winning, guys,and this is happening.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
How did you feel after they announced that you
won?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
that was.
That was surreal.
When they announced us, I waslike because I'm not sure if I
remember correctly, but I thinkwe got put up against the autism
awareness video.
I was like, oh yeah, that'slike.
Oh, we gotta give it to them.
That's what I was thinking.
And then they called us up andI was like shaking, like I don't
even remember walking up to thestage, I just remember I was
(12:51):
standing there on stage.
I was like, snap, it's my videofor that.
How about you?
Michelle?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I actually just found out today that we went.
I didn't know that.
Did you that?
It's actually so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I gotta too, for those of you who were able to go
.
We were so impressed so we werebackstage handing out the
awards and things and we couldhear your whole group cheering
for every award winner, everycategory.
It didn't matter if it waselementary, if it was animation.
You guys were there foreveryone and just such great
supports.
And they had these likenoisemakers and whistles and you
(13:29):
could just hear them going offall night.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
you're nervous, I was so nervous because I I did the
application, so I submitted foryou guys, for all of you, you're
varying.
I made sure like I was on time.
I made sure it went through.
I was like gotta make sure itwent through.
But I also knew I have a lot ofstudents that submitted for the
film festival at my school andI knew how competitive that that
(13:55):
category was and I knew thatwhen we actually got in, how big
of an honor that was.
And already I texted Mark rightaway or emailed him.
I was, we got into the filmfestival.
He's like, okay, should we geta bus?
Should we, like I should dothis?
Are we going to like, make afield trip of it?
And then, yes, we're going todo that.
(14:16):
And we figured out we're goingto do that the day of, or a
couple days before that.
And then he showed up with thebells and whistles and you guys
really just, of course,supported every single person
that was there in every singlefilm even the.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So tell me what was your biggest takeaway from
Bailey's class, from doing thisproject?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Probably just having the opportunity to work with the
equipment we did Definitelyshout out to Mark Helped a lot.
Make this happen, make thishappen.
And then also, I feel like morecomfortable not comfortable,
but more, I guess, not so aloneknowing that other people are
also here with struggles, youknow, and I'm not the only one.
(15:03):
So I think that's my biggesttakeaway.
I really enjoyed the class andthank you, bailey, for teaching.
It was a really fun class.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I loved it you need for a lunch.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You can cry if she wants to when we were all
talking about our storiesactually in class, I actually
was crying.
I'm like, oh my god, like thecries, it's okay to cry.
Yeah, I love it yeah, probably.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Um, getting back into a recording, because I used to
have a little YouTube channel inelementary because I thought it
was pretty cool people got richoff of just uh being themselves
what would you guys say to anyother students who maybe they've
maybe like EC?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
they had something going on when they were in
elementary school, but they'renot quite sure and they're
thinking, well, maybe I'll, I'llget into the film festival.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Just go for it.
You never know what you'regonna expect.
Like Willie, I never expected.
I say, just go for it just doit.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Exactly what EC said just do.
I mean, if you're starting towant to get into film in
elementary school and, like youwant to pursue it, like you say,
you have some challenges alongthe way and you fall out of like
film or whatever career path,you want to go about it like you
.
This is your life and you'regrowing right now.
(16:34):
Whoever's listening, and I mean, if this is what you want to
pursue, film, do it dude, do itgirl like, do it man, like I
don't.
All of you guys like do it.
Just pursue it, live it.
And, I don't know, dream it.
I'm trying to be inspirationalbut I'm not inspirational.
So I hope you guys can takethese words and learn something
from it you just never know whatyou're gonna get out of it.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You know word and there's technically nothing you
could lose if you, you know,decide to go for it.
And I feel like at the end,kind of like what he was saying
you probably are gonna gothrough some struggles, but I
feel like it's all worth it.
It's all worth it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Battle scars.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I was a little apprehensive of okay, what am I?
I'm just handing over thisequipment to these students.
What are they going to produce?
But after just a little bit ofguidance, what do you guys want
to do?
Okay, who's doing what?
How are we attacking it?
Who's doing the writing?
Who's doing the filming?
It just all produced itself.
(17:37):
And I think my biggest takeawayis just have faith in the
process and have faith in mystudents and have faith in their
ideas, because they do knowwhat they want and they do know
what is a good idea and what isgreat on the big screen as well.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's beautiful.
I think you guys, you know, hitthe nail on the head.
You are the voices of tomorrowand you know you got to speak up
and be you.
Just do it.
Get your voices heard.
Thank you for joining us andfor sharing your stories and
being an inspiration to otherfuture filmmakers out there.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Thank you for being an inspiration for us.
Thank you, I thought you sawopportunity.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Happy to.
No, I'm happy to be here, metoo.
If you do want to watch any ofthe winning films from the film
festival, you can go to csdtvorgand click watch and they'll be
under film festival.
And thank you for listening.
If there's a topic you'd liketo hear discussed on the podcast
, send us an email tocommunications at canyons
district dot org thanks forlistening to this episode.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Website canyonsdistrictorg.
Welcome to Connect Canyons, a podcast sponsored by
Canyon School District.
This is a show about what weteach, how we teach and why we
get up close and personal withsome of the people who make our
schools great Students, teachers, principals, parents and more.
We meet national experts too.
Learning is about makingconnections, so connect with us.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
For 15 years, students of all ages from across
Canyon school districts havecompeted in the annual CSDTV
Film Festival.
From documentaries to shortfilms, podcasts and stop-motion
creations, students write film,act and direct their films,
which are then pitted againstother films in the same age
bracket, with one winner comingout on top in each category.
(00:46):
Welcome to Connect Canyons.
I'm your host, frances Cook.
This year.
It was the first year thatstudents at Entrada High School
chose to compete in the filmfestival.
But not only did they compete,they won their category of high
school documentary.
So I'm joined today by Entradateacher Bailey Riley, as well as
some of the students who workedon the film Isi Lau, jackson
(01:08):
Stevens and Michelle Nolasco.
Thank you all for joining us.
Bailey, I'd like to start withyou.
This goes farther back thanjust entering the film festival.
You recently received a grantfrom the Canyons Education
Foundation.
Can you walk us through?
You know how you applied forthe grant what it was like
(01:31):
receiving that.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Just lay out that whole story for us Back in
September is when I startedtyping out and meticulously
planning out what I wanted to dowith this project, before we
even applied for it.
Before even the class began,mark and I actually had the
conversation about what wewanted this class to be about
and what we wanted to do, and wehad this vision of what we
(01:53):
could possibly submit for thefilm festival and ideally, we
needed equipment to produce thebest film that we could possibly
produce.
So I typed out and I had thehonor of online shopping on
Canon and other websites as wellto try to find anything that I
(02:17):
felt like the best items toproduce the film that we needed
to produce.
So I decided on cameras.
So I applied for full grant of$6,000 so we could receive three
camera setups so we could havethree rigs for our teams to
initially have enough coverageto record our documentary.
(02:38):
I applied didn't hear back forabout a month or so for the
Canyons Education Foundation togo through all of the
applications and decide on whothey wanted to grant the money
to.
So actually I was here atEntrata teaching my graphic
(02:59):
design class for the first timeever, and Mark suspiciously
emailed me the day of asking ifI was going to be on campus and
I said of course, I'm going tobe teaching my class today.
I was teaching my class and hecame, knocked on my door and all
of a sudden, the Board ofEducation members Canyon's
(03:19):
Education Foundation startedrushing into my classroom.
And then we came out as welland all of the students were
outside clapping for us and wewere awarded with a check a big,
big check of $6,000, our fullgrant that we wanted to receive
to get everything that we wishfor.
So it was our dream all of theequipment that we wanted to
(03:42):
accomplish what we needed to,and without this we wouldn't be
able to do so.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
That was a really great moment too, getting all
the students involved and havingthem in the hallways and
cheering for you.
You could kind of see theexcitement on everybody's faces.
Let's go to the decision tomaking a film for the film
festival.
Was it a class project?
Did you guys decide to do it?
Walk me through how it all wentdown.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
We were more just trying to depict the stories and
the impacts of the obstaclespeople have had to hop over to
get through to get here to thishigh school and to be motivated
enough to learn and for theirlife.
And some of these people'sstories here are really touching
and yeah, I mean, that's whatwe were trying to depict in our
film was just everyone's stories, how they overcame everything.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Our teacher, bailey, did give us, like other options.
At first she showed usdifferent like types of films of
what we could possibly want todo and we've seen this
documentary and I think thewhole class liked this.
We found like, oh okay, maybeit'd be interesting if we were
to like like he said, you know,go around the school and hear
(04:50):
about other people's stories andstuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It was really fun, I enjoyed it, I think the first
day I asked them what is onething that you all have in
common, what is similar storythat you have?
And it is adult education.
How did you get here?
And they all had differentstories of how they ended up at
(05:15):
Entrada, but they all pursuedtheir education and all pushing
on, which is super honorable.
And when you hear theirbackgrounds and you hear their
stories when I heard theirstories I was brought to tears.
Honestly, they're utterlyamazing students and what they
produce you can see it in theirfilm, you can see their passion
(05:37):
and you can see what they'vegone through the triumphs as
well.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, I think you're right.
I feel like you know you getthat emotion from.
You know you have documentariesthat you're watching it and
you're like, okay, this isboring, you know, and okay, I'm
learning facts, but to watchyour documentary, which is
entitled Entrata Students'Voices of Tomorrow, you can see
the passion in it.
It takes a lot of work, too, toput something like that
(06:04):
together.
I'd like to know, you know,what kind of expectations did
you have going into making thisfilm?
And then, was the work that youput into it the same as you
expected?
Isi, would you like to leave usall it?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
honestly came out way better than I thought it would.
I don't know.
I just I wasn't thinking thisvideography class was going to
be too crazy.
And then I saw the equipmentthat we're using and when I saw
the video I was like surprised.
It was great, but yeah, Iwasn't really expecting anything
(06:39):
from it.
Still crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I think our expectations were.
So we have to have the videounder five minutes, right,
that's the expectations.
We did get the five-minute mark.
It was really a strugglebecause there's so many people
who you like to interview, butwe had to pick out what we felt.
These kids are people who haveovercome even harder obstacles.
(07:02):
We had to choose some storiesover others, try to make some
fit.
I mean, it would have beennicer to have an hour-long
documentary and have all thepeople's stories in here, but
you can't do that all the time.
But that's upcoming, that's forthe future.
We're working on it.
So don't worry guys, it'scoming out, it's a full
documentary movie.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Nice.
I also thought it would bepretty easy, but With our
five-minute time limit it washard because, like he said, a
lot of these students' storiesthey were interesting and they
were definitely longer than fiveminutes, so it was a challenge,
(07:40):
but I don't know.
I enjoyed it with the camerastoo and learning everything
about the cameras.
That was really fun.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's hard to kind of trim those stories down.
You think five minutes, oh,that's plenty of time.
But when you want to telleveryone's story and you know,
do it justice.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, then you have to trim it down and then you
miss like one part of theirstory and then like everyone's
lost.
Like what did that happen likefive years ago?
How are they here now?
Like, yeah, If you guys havethe full film, we'll let you
know.
It's coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Nice teaser.
I like it.
What was your favorite part?
Were there parts that were moredifficult than others?
Were there parts that you'lljust take with you?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
My favorite part is easy.
We work so hard getting thoseshots Because those were the
first days of production whenthe kids I don't want to call
them kids, let's just have itthose were the first days of
students learning the cameras.
And if you didn't see in theother shots when we the cuts
(08:43):
before that, the students areunderneath the desks and hiding
with the lights and with themics, just hiding behind them,
and it's just take Jackson andscreaming behind the desk okay,
take, roll.
It was so fun to see them justthrive in production and take on
these roles so naturally justusing the environment around and
(09:07):
everything you see.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
you were kind of the model walking through the school
sitting down in the classroom.
That was a lot of pressure.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
It was nothing.
I like being the main attention.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I think EC did perfect.
He was like it was perfect andyeah, he fit the end show really
well and I feel like, yeah, Imean I don't know it's easy for
you guys.
There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, I just do what I can.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You fit the vibe of the school.
I think that was a common themethat you guys wanted to portray
is you wanted to portrayEntrada as it truly, truly is,
that it's not like any otherhigh school in Canyons district.
It's not like Corner Canyon,where I teach at full time.
It's a completely, completelydifferent school.
(09:56):
Now, when you walk in, I meanthey're walking in in the dark
and it's rough music and it'svibing and they're walking in
and they're kind of swaying andhaving their time and yeah, it's
just them.
And then when they come in,it's just a whole switch and
they're happy and engaging andpositive and just it's amazing.
(10:21):
That's what Entrada is and theycaptured it perfectly.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well said, Baylor.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I think my favorite part was just filming.
I'm really nosy, so I likeknowing people's life, you know.
So I found it fun when we wereable to pull out students.
It was actually surprising howmany students actually wanted to
talk and say their stories.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
We did get denied a lot, but yeah, we got denied by
probably like well, like weprobably got maybe one person
out of each classroom and we gointo another classroom and try
to get more people.
Everyone else was like no, justall doing their work.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
But the stories we got.
I don't know.
That was my favorite part, justknowing how similar but
different we all are.
You know, like all of ourstories, I feel like I just
found it so cool and you got thehonor of doing interviewing
Stephanie.
Mainly correct, yes yeah, theirstories were.
(11:18):
I think their stories was oneof my favorites because they
really got deep yeah, it isreally cool to hear.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You see these people in the hallways every day and
you don't expect what they'vebeen through.
Yeah, exactly, you say hi andyou think you know them.
But to get at that deeper level, that's a treat.
Yes, so let's jump to the nightof the film festival.
Y'all showed up with literalbells and whistles, like you
were ready to celebrate, nomatter what Talk about what it
(11:49):
was like being there.
How did you feel?
Were you nervous?
Were you excited?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I mean I was a little nervous.
I didn't really expect us towin.
I mean I saw how great all theother films were.
They were amazing.
I mean I got some contactinformation from some people
there and follow them onInstagram and I'm watching their
films.
Like their animations areamazing.
Like I want to strive to belike that one day.
I want to learn animation, butlike I don't think I ever will
because I don't have thepatience for it.
They were great films, like theelementary films.
(12:15):
They were so funny and I I feellike we needed those hands and
whistles because we needed toshow our support for them and I
didn't feel like that's the win.
But then we did and I walked,we walked up there and I was
like, okay, we're winning, guys,and this is happening.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
How did you feel after they announced that you
won?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
that was.
That was surreal.
When they announced us, I waslike because I'm not sure if I
remember correctly, but I thinkwe got put up against the autism
awareness video.
I was like, oh yeah, that'slike.
Oh, we gotta give it to them.
That's what I was thinking.
And then they called us up andI was like shaking, like I don't
even remember walking up to thestage, I just remember I was
(12:51):
standing there on stage.
I was like, snap, it's my videofor that.
How about you?
Michelle?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I actually just found out today that we went.
I didn't know that.
Did you that?
It's actually so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I gotta too, for those of you who were able to go
.
We were so impressed so we werebackstage handing out the
awards and things and we couldhear your whole group cheering
for every award winner, everycategory.
It didn't matter if it waselementary, if it was animation.
You guys were there foreveryone and just such great
supports.
And they had these likenoisemakers and whistles and you
(13:29):
could just hear them going offall night.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
you're nervous, I was so nervous because I I did the
application, so I submitted foryou guys, for all of you, you're
varying.
I made sure like I was on time.
I made sure it went through.
I was like gotta make sure itwent through.
But I also knew I have a lot ofstudents that submitted for the
film festival at my school andI knew how competitive that that
(13:55):
category was and I knew thatwhen we actually got in, how big
of an honor that was.
And already I texted Mark rightaway or emailed him.
I was, we got into the filmfestival.
He's like, okay, should we geta bus?
Should we, like I should dothis?
Are we going to like, make afield trip of it?
And then, yes, we're going todo that.
(14:16):
And we figured out we're goingto do that the day of, or a
couple days before that.
And then he showed up with thebells and whistles and you guys
really just, of course,supported every single person
that was there in every singlefilm even the.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So tell me what was your biggest takeaway from
Bailey's class, from doing thisproject?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Probably just having the opportunity to work with the
equipment we did Definitelyshout out to Mark Helped a lot.
Make this happen, make thishappen.
And then also, I feel like morecomfortable not comfortable,
but more, I guess, not so aloneknowing that other people are
also here with struggles, youknow, and I'm not the only one.
(15:03):
So I think that's my biggesttakeaway.
I really enjoyed the class andthank you, bailey, for teaching.
It was a really fun class.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I loved it you need for a lunch.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You can cry if she wants to when we were all
talking about our storiesactually in class, I actually
was crying.
I'm like, oh my god, like thecries, it's okay to cry.
Yeah, I love it yeah, probably.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Um, getting back into a recording, because I used to
have a little YouTube channel inelementary because I thought it
was pretty cool people got richoff of just uh being themselves
what would you guys say to anyother students who maybe they've
maybe like EC?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
they had something going on when they were in
elementary school, but they'renot quite sure and they're
thinking, well, maybe I'll, I'llget into the film festival.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Just go for it.
You never know what you'regonna expect.
Like Willie, I never expected.
I say, just go for it just doit.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Exactly what EC said just do.
I mean, if you're starting towant to get into film in
elementary school and, like youwant to pursue it, like you say,
you have some challenges alongthe way and you fall out of like
film or whatever career path,you want to go about it like you
.
This is your life and you'regrowing right now.
(16:34):
Whoever's listening, and I mean, if this is what you want to
pursue, film, do it dude, do itgirl like, do it man, like I
don't.
All of you guys like do it.
Just pursue it, live it.
And, I don't know, dream it.
I'm trying to be inspirationalbut I'm not inspirational.
So I hope you guys can takethese words and learn something
from it you just never know whatyou're gonna get out of it.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You know word and there's technically nothing you
could lose if you, you know,decide to go for it.
And I feel like at the end,kind of like what he was saying
you probably are gonna gothrough some struggles, but I
feel like it's all worth it.
It's all worth it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Battle scars.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I was a little apprehensive of okay, what am I?
I'm just handing over thisequipment to these students.
What are they going to produce?
But after just a little bit ofguidance, what do you guys want
to do?
Okay, who's doing what?
How are we attacking it?
Who's doing the writing?
Who's doing the filming?
It just all produced itself.
(17:37):
And I think my biggest takeawayis just have faith in the
process and have faith in mystudents and have faith in their
ideas, because they do knowwhat they want and they do know
what is a good idea and what isgreat on the big screen as well.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's beautiful.
I think you guys, you know, hitthe nail on the head.
You are the voices of tomorrowand you know you got to speak up
and be you.
Just do it.
Get your voices heard.
Thank you for joining us andfor sharing your stories and
being an inspiration to otherfuture filmmakers out there.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Thank you for being an inspiration for us.
Thank you, I thought you sawopportunity.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Happy to.
No, I'm happy to be here, metoo.
If you do want to watch any ofthe winning films from the film
festival, you can go to csdtvorgand click watch and they'll be
under film festival.
And thank you for listening.
If there's a topic you'd liketo hear discussed on the podcast
, send us an email tocommunications at canyons
district dot org thanks forlistening to this episode.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Website canyonsdistrictorg.
Popular Podcasts
Boysober
Have you ever wondered what life might be like if you stopped worrying about being wanted, and focused on understanding what you actually want? That was the question Hope Woodard asked herself after a string of situationships inspired her to take a break from sex and dating. She went "boysober," a personal concept that sparked a global movement among women looking to prioritize themselves over men. Now, Hope is looking to expand the ways we explore our relationship to relationships. Taking a bold, unfiltered look into modern love, romance, and self-discovery, Boysober will dive into messy stories about dating, sex, love, friendship, and breaking generational patterns—all with humor, vulnerability, and a fresh perspective.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com