From left are CHS film teacher Paul Marigliano, award-winning student filmmaker Max Goldstein, 2018 Young Filmmakers Narrative Short finalist Sophia Heriveaux, and Richard Stephen Bell, founder and executive director of CINEMA ED.
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — At the 2018 Montclair Emerging Filmmaker Competition, Columbia High student filmmakers and animators won in the following categories:
- In Narrative, Aidan Romanaux and graduate Ralph Ravix won the grand prize with the film “Choice”;
- In Animation, Sophie Goodman-Merel won the grand prize with the film “SuperHero Convention,” which had already won another major award; and
- In Animation, Ethan Halperin won the special jury prize with the film “Cellular Life.”
At the SOMA Film Festival Youth Filmmakers section, Romanaux and Max Goldstein’s film “Max’s Candy Crush” won its second major award this year when it took home Best Narrative Short. Goldstein also took home a runner-up award for “Village to Village” in the Documentary Short category. The film “Space Attack,” by Christina Wright, also took home a runner-up award for Best Animation.
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