Congratulations to the Winners and Finalists for 2021!

High School Digital Animation

First Place – Quarantined
Holly Rumble
Eltham High School
Victoria, Australia

Second Place – Dams: The Pros & Cons
Ava Skye Barton, Chas Seiffert
Cab Calloway School of the Arts

Third Place – The Spypad
Caelin Brinkley
Shorecrest Preparatory School 
St. Peterburg, Florida

Finalists

Solitaire
Meredith Roberts
Greenhill School
Addison, Texas

The Homo Sapien Virus
Andrew Wang
Adlai E Stevenson High School
Buffalo Grove, Illinois 

High School Digital Editing and Special Effects

First Place – Side effects
Dylan Wilkins
Winter Haven High School
Winter Haven, Florida

Second Place – A conversation with E
Esabella Strickland, Taylor Mitchell, Skylar A
CineLab – Vancouver
VANCOUVER, BC Canada

Third Place – Dear Anxiety 
Alex Guo
University High School
Irvine, CA

Finalists

2020
Hanna Peresztegi
Kőbányai Szent László Gimnáziu
Hungary

4 SENSES
Pablo Iranzo Pineda
Homeschooled
Seville, Spain

University Animation

First Place – The Whistle
Jane Holguin
TLS Toulouse Lautrec Institute
Peru

Second Place – Palindromo
Paolo Amadini
Escape Studios Pearson College London
United Kingdom

Third Place – Half a Saba
Ben Molina
Shenkar
Israel

Finalists

Push
Trilina Mai
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA

Sommerregen
Julia Skala, Oscar Jacobson
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg, Germany

University Digital Editing and Special Effects

First Place – The Dollar Flu
Jonathan J Lee
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Second Place – VECTOR
Alexander Griffin
State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego
Oswego, NY

Third Place – the truth / 2001
Oleksandr Hoisan
Kyiv National University of Culture & Arts
Ukraine

Finalists

Accessing Portals
Alina Adela Chis, Iulia Chirculescu
Bournemouth University
United Kingdom

A Herd
Minseok Kim
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI

Congratulations to the Official Selections for 2021!

From over 135 submissions from all over the world, 55 high school student films were selected to compete. Good luck to all of you!

The screening and awards ceremony will be streamed on-line April 17th, 2021. The screening premieres at 9A Central US time, and the awards show premieres at 7P Central US time via Facebook Live.

Watch for more details on the festival’s Facebook page (public, no Facebook account needed to access) at https://www.facebook.com/FrameByFrameFilmFest/

High School Digital Animation

Films that were made via digital software without the use of live action visible in the final product to tell a story  

¿MAD!FUN¡HOUSE?
William Asher
Mansfield State High School
Mansfield QLD, Australia

A Plushie’s Dream
Sebastián Jaovi
Instituto Internacional de Estudios Superiores
Mexico

click
Zoltán Bendegúz Szabó
Toldy Ferenc Highshool
Budapest, Hungary

Dams: The Pros & Cons
Ava Skye Barton, Chas Seiffert
Cab Calloway School of the Arts

Day of the Dead
Kerry Lum
Lake Travis High school
Austin, Texas

Demens, Dementis
Solomon Goluboff-Schragger, Sarah Meyer, Sarah Jeffrey, Meade Evans
Charlottesville High School

Demons
Jimmy Edward Rahi
ASG Lebanon

Difficulties
Nikita Fedin
Semyon – Oleninsky High School
Ryazan, Russian Federation

Don’t Go Into The Classroom
Kayla Burch
Prosper High School
Prosper, Texas

Global Cooling
Students of Toon Club
India

hook, line & sinker
Ivan Farkas
St Andrews College
NSW, Australia

Last Breath
Karo Mohammadi
Taleghani Animation High School
Sanandaj, Islamic Republic of Iran

Mama
Adam Pandey
Homeschooled
Ireland

Out of the Frame
Students of CSMVS and Toon Club
India

Presidential Peeper 
Tori Kim
Polytechnic School
Pasadena CA

Quarantined
Holly Rumble
Eltham High School
Victoria, Australia

Solitaire
Meredith Roberts
Greenhill School
Addison, Texas

The Amazon Artists
Eunsoo (Sunny) Kwon
Mansfield State High SchoolMansfield QLD, Australia

The Good Wife’s Guide
Chloe Merriman
Greenhill School
Addison,Texas

The Homo Sapien Virus
Andrew Wang
Adlai E Stevenson High School
Buffalo Grove, Illinois 

The Moments
Piotr Kaźmierczak
Homeschooled
Poland

The Palestinian Cat
Leila Bloomingdale
Crossroads
Santa Monica, CA

The Perfect Weekend
Joshua Lewis
Mansfield State High School
Mansfield QLD, Australia

The Runaway Ticket
Blake Negus
Mansfield State High School
Mansfield QLD, Australia

The Spypad
Caelin Brinkley
Shorecrest Preparatory School 
St. Peterburg, Florida

Ticket to the Skies
Karena Darwen
Mansfield State High School
Mansfield QLD, Australia

Trapped
Alena Shibu
Mansfield State High School
Mansfield QLD, Australia

High School Digital Editing and Special Effects

Films that use a mix of digital special effects and editing techniques with live action to advance and enhance the story of the film.

2020
Hanna Peresztegi
Kőbányai Szent László Gimnáziu
Hungary

14 DAYS
Pablo Iranzo Pineda, Levi Numann, Olamide Ojegbenro, Joris Janssen
Homeschooled
Seville, Spain

4 SENSES
Pablo Iranzo Pineda
Homeschooled
Seville, Spain

A conversation with E
Esabella Strickland, Taylor Mitchell, Skylar A
CineLab – Vancouver
VANCOUVER, BC Canada

Ann Marie
Laura Grobholz
Warren Hills Regional High School
Washington, New Jersey

Are you still there?
Francisco Carlero, Juan Manuel Rocca
Zorrilla
Uruguay

Clementine
Abby Lewis
Norcross High School
Peachtree Corners, GA

Club
Luke Bass
Kingwood High School
Kingwood, TX

Companies in Quarantine
Mr. Tables
CharterTech High School

Dear Anxiety 
Alex Guo
University High School
Irvine, CA

DECALCOMANIA
HANNAH RAGUDOS
Alaminos City National High School 
Alaminos City, Philippines

Distortion (Verzerrung)
Samuel J Punto
Ernst Ludwig Schule
Bad Nauheim, Germany

Duo
Everardo Garcia
Lyons Township High School
Hodgkins, IL

Fly little bird
Otto Cortes
Moara- Brasília – DF
Brasilia, Brazil

In Time
Brooks Reehl
Warren Hills Regional High School
Washington, New Jersey

Inhibitor 8 minute cut
Jessica Herlitz, Cian Collins
Greenhill School
Dallas, Texas

Insomnia
Ellery Miki-Petite
Etobicoke School of the Arts
Toronto, Ontario Canada

Lady Killer
Kendra van Doorn
Centennial High School
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Let The Professionals Handle It
Veer Tyagi, Conan Chang, Jason Kisilvich, Payton Lieberman, Alex Hollis
Saddle River Day School
Saddle River, New Jersey

Libration
Mahdi Heidari
Mohsenin
Islamic Republic of Iran

Little girl
Midnight Adams
Sacred Heart
United Kingdom

NO CUT
Tharun
Chinamaya
India

Once and For All
Samuel Tomatz
New Vista High School
Boulder, CO

ORA_MISS MO
KHENT CACHO
Alaminos City National High School 
Alaminos City, Philippines

Perpetual
Lim Yang Jun
Sunway College 
Kuala Lumpur

Side effects
Dylan Wilkins
Winter Haven High School
Winter Haven, Florida

The Anti-Reality of Loneliness 
Sophia Pangalos
Denver School of the Arts High School
Castle Rock, CO

University Animation

Cloaked Feelings
Faith Connolly
Middle Tennessee State University
Bowling Green, KY

Deep Fears
Ryan Chu
California State University Long Beach
Garden Grove, CA

Dog Days
Stephanie Chan
Rochester Institute of Technology
SOUTH AMBOY, NJ

foto time
Renee Chua
Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media
Singapore

Half a Saba
Ben Molina
Shenkar
Israel

JOURNEY
Andrés Amat García
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Ecuador

Leipzig Noir
Caspar de Gelmini
University of the Arts Braunschweig
Berlin, Germany

Nena
Maria Paula Guerrero
University of Connecticut
Stamford, CT 

Palindromo
Paolo Amadini
Escape Studios Pearson College London
United Kingdom

Push
Trilina Mai
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA

Queen of the Sea
Selena Chea Miller
DePaul University
Chicago, IL

Sommerregen
Julia Skala, Oscar Jacobson
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The Whistle
Jane Holguin
TLS Toulouse Lautrec Institute
Peru

What To Do With Your Tabloid News
Anne Marie Las Pinas, Bobby Toresdahl, Brandon Sims, Brandon Williams, Brayan Ramirez, Christian Pech, Eric Thompson, George Manukyan, Haileigh Tenney, Jade Boyd, Joshua Jo, Kobe Aceves, Lawren Cruz, Leo Ramirez, Michael Miro, Noemi Hernandez, Ramon Gonzalez, Jr., Tori Boyd, Vincent Guerra-Hernandez
The Center for Learning Unlimited
Tarzana, CA 

Witch’s Hunt Day
Odilia Tanujaya
Universitas Multimedia Nusantara
Indonesia

University Digital Editing and Special Effects

A Herd
Minseok Kim
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI

Accessing Portals
Alina Adela Chis, Iulia Chirculescu
Bournemouth University
United Kingdom

The Dollar Flu
Jonathan J Lee
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

The Parisian Dream
Luís Scala
School of Communications and Arts – University of São Paulo
Brazil

the truth / 2001
Oleksandr Hoisan
Kyiv National University of Culture & Arts
Ukraine

VECTOR
Alexander Griffin
State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego
Oswego, NY

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