Sonoma County Office of Education

Five-Minute Film Festival Entries

Five-Minute Film Festival Entries

Festival LogoThis year, SCOE its second annual Five-Minute Film Festival. This was an opportunity for K-12 students to demonstrate learning in a 21st century context and showcase their work in front of a community audience. To participate, students created short videos (up to five-minutes long) on the theme of “Patterns” and submitted them to a SCOE for judging by a celebrity panel. The top 15 films debuted at the Festival on March 14. Learn more and read about the winning films here.

All 94 films submitted are shown below, with the winning films highlighted first. You can use the Search box, above right, to search for a specific film.


Judge-Selected Winners

Grades K-5
"Patternless" | By Santia DePaola | Oak Grove Elementary


Grades 6-8
"The Amazing Cow Cam" | By Blake Macheras, Kaden Anderson, and Kieran Douglass | Willowside Middle



High School
"Violence in a Generation" | Cheloy Gonzalez, Katie McUgh, Indiana DeFrancesco, and Shayna Kubiceck | Windsor High School



Audience Choice Winner

"Mandala Project" | By the Students of Room 24 | Kawana Academy of the Arts & Sciences


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Symptoms of Youth Sports Concussions
By Isabela Chavez
Grade 7, Windsor Middle School
The Adventures of Jen Etics
By "Rose Cohen-Sandler, Noor Lamba, Jamie Park, View All...
Grade 11, Maria Carrillo High School
The Amazing Cow Cam
By "Blake Macheras, Kaden Anderson, Kieran Douglass"
Grade 7, Willowside Middle
The Dark Side of Scientists
By "David Carrillo, Clarice Meffert, Taylor Carey"
Grade 11-12, Maria Carrillo High School
The Emerald Tree Boa
By "Aria Lager, Johnna Schubert and Kayla Rutherford"
Grade 4th, Oak Grove Elementary School
The Life Cycle of a Cheetah
By "Lainey Arvold Ramirez, Kendall Lopes, and Marlen Rios"
Grade 4th, Oak Grove Elementary School
The Life Cycle of Some Sea Creatures
By "Max Schneider, Frankie Tibbens"
Grade 4, Oak Grove Elementary
The Pattern of the Seasons
By "Luke Negri, Hayden Byrne, Chase Dunbar"
Grade 4th, Strawberry Elementary School
Transforming Patterns
By "Mikey Markwardt, Trevor Diaz"
Grade 7th, Rincon Valley Charter School
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