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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Classroom Patterns
By "Ava Rudesill, Gabby Sinatra, Kylie Malm, View All...
Grade 5th, Strawberry School
Climate Change: A Pattern of Destruction
By "Antonia Bartz, Lindsay Kearney, Tia Furness, View All...
Grade 12, Maria Carrillo High School
Clouds.The Uncontrollable Pattern
By "Elijah Siegel, Jasper Schroen"
Grade 7, Willowside MIddle School
Code Blue: Not Every Life Can Be Saved
By "Ackshey Dhar, Adam Dvorak, Ian Strachan, View All...
Grade 11, Maria Carrillo High School
Conflict Between Nations
By John Madden
Grade 10th Grade, Maria Carrillo High School
Decades of Clothing and Hair
By "Kelsey Berges, Grace McCormick, Ambar Ramirez"
Grade 7, Willowside Middle School
Deja Vu
By Jack Jerome
Grade 7, Windsor Middle School
Dream Patterns
By Emily Ott
Grade 6, Windsor Middle School
Everybody Needs Vegetables!
By "Nina Cheek, Grace Frediani, Sami Stefan, View All...
Grade "11,12", Maria Carrillo High School
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Nicole Rosaschi, SCOE Administrative Operations Specialist, Human Resources
"I love that the people I work with are passionate about their work, passionate about our students getting the best possible education, and passionate about Sonoma County. " - Nicole Rosaschi, SCOE Administrative Operations Specialist, Human Resources