And the Winner Is . . .

Guild Hall’s 15th annual student film competition awards ceremony and screening will be held next Thursday at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

According to Jennifer Brondo, the theater’s general manager and associate for theater education, 54 films were submitted from students enrolled in local schools, as well as home-schooled students. Five judges watched all the films and chose the top three in each age group. Those students’s films will be shown during next Thursday’s ceremony.

In first through fourth grade, the top three films were “Ghost Haunting” by Ryder Patrowicz, “Dissolved Oxygen” by Andrew Farez, and “Estuary Energy” by Ella Menu. Fifth through eighth grade winners were “Dropped” by Phoenix Bliss, Dash Breen, and Leonardo Dougherty; “The Plastic Villains” by C.J. Baumrind, Salome Galindo, Tyler Hansen, Kevin Narvaez, and Aaron Segovia, and “Braille” by Charlie Troy and Owen Wood. The high school winners were “A Loss of Innocence” by Christian Miller, “A Race Against Time” by Abigail Loos, and “Dear Phone” by Augie Schultz.