Vote: “Unmasked” Needs Your Vote in the Student Filmmakers Awards
Voting ends Sunday, January 24th at 10:59pm PT
Last weekend the community united as emails and FB posts spread like wild fire to alert people of the Student Filmmakers Award online competition. “Unmasked”, a movie produced by Paly and Gunn students (DocX) rallied for the win in the semi-finals, and has now advanced to the FINALS!! The DocX team is thoroughly humbled by the support they have received. Let’s keep it going. Please help them by clicking the link below (or paste in your browser). Then sign in with either Facebook or Google+ and vote for “Unmasked” by Sunday 10:59pm
Last summer students from Paly and Gunn (DocX) came together and collaborated on a project to address the issue of teen suicide in Palo Alto. Their goal was to open dialogue, to help their community and their fellow students, and to let those who might be feeling pain know that they are being heard and we care.
In a few short weeks this team of 15-18 year old kids story-boarded the project, filmed, interviewed key high level people and created the amazing documentary “Unmasked”. The movie is good and it addresses an incredibly sensitive and complicated issue in a balanced way. “Unmasked” has not only united a great group of kids (and families) from the two schools but it is uniting the community. Someone who has seen it said, “…it gives us a chance to step back and realize the goal is not to blame, but to care.” A Cupertino student told me, “It’s really on the kids’ level. It hits home and gives hope.” I am so proud of what these kids took it upon themselves to do and how they have helped the community that they love.
“Unmasked” is good. The film won “Best Short Film” last November at the Big Asian Film Festival in Los Angeles. And now it is in the FINALS of the Student Filmmakers Award competition, a world-wide student film competition. Of the original 32 films that were accepted to this competition, 5 were from high schools and the rest were from college and grad school; stiff competition. The movie they are up against is “If Death Were Kind". It is the thesis project of three students from the University of Nebraska.
Online voting is in progress and ends Sunday 1/24/16 at 10:59pm.
Voting will be tight so please forward this to friends and family.
These kids care for their community, their schools, and their peers and hence they are hesitant to self-promote their work. Throughout the competition, the one thing the DocX team has stated over and over is that the most important consequence of this competition is that more people have been able to view the movie and be helped by its message.
Help them in their quest to support us. Please vote!!
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