Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase

The Arkansas Educational Television Network's Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers' Showcase is a program for kindergarten through 12th grade students, created to highlight the bright future of Arkansas' youngest filmmakers.

We encourage all types of submissions including but not limited to:

• Documentary
• Narrative (Short or full-length fiction film or sitcom, etc.)
• Animation (Hand-drawn, Claymation, Macromedia Flash, etc.)
• Short Form Video Diaries
• QuickTime Internet Shorts
• Music Videos

Our main stipulation is that in all of the submissions students played key roles in the development and production of each project.

Entries for Student Selects 2009 will be accepted beginning January 2009 through March 20, 2009. Click here to view previous student entries.

The program, now in its third year, premieres chosen films on AETN and on AETN.org to extend the life of the films and allow people from across the state and beyond to access the work. AETN will also host a youth filmmaking event and screening of chosen films at the Little Rock Film Festival in May 2009 Watch this site for future information.

This year we have added a special category we are particularly interested in featuring:

Arkansas's State and National Parks Their Past, Our Present, Your Future.

• Historical perspective of national/state parks, rivers and sites.
• Current state of Arkansas’s national and state parks.
• The future of Arkansas’s parks.
• Encourage Arkansans of all ages to enjoy and conserve our parks.

Arkansas’s National & State Parks

Hot Springs National Park, Buffalo National River, Little Rock Central High National Historic Site, Fort Smith National Historic Site, Arkansas Post National Memorial, Pea Ridge National Military Park and 52 Arkansas State Parks

If you know a student or are a student whose media project meets these criteria please submit it for consideration! For more information please contact Casey Sanders at 501-682-4190 or csanders@aetn.org.