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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Unspoken Note
By "Adrianna Sousa, Becky Martinez, Haylee Kinney, View All...
Grade 11/12, Windsor High School
Violence in a Generation
By "Cheloy Gonzalez, Katie McUgh, Indiana DiFrancesco, View All...
Grade 11/12, Windsor High School
Walking Patterns
By "Walter Gilbraith, Reece Stan, and William Carlson"
Grade 4th, Oak Grove Elementary School
Zap Through Time
By "Austin Welsh, Alex Ramos , Olivia Franceschi, View All...
Grade 7, Willowside Middle
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Leilan, Student
"I like Amarosa because there's a much smaller student count and so teachers can be one-on-one with you. They can actually help you and be one-on-one with you while the class is doing something else. I feel like that's a huge game-changer." - Leilan, Student