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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Extra Lives
By "Erika Stewart, Cooper Chavez, Shay Mendoza"
Grade 11/12, Windsor High School
Freedom Fighters
By "John Kim, Sydney Hollingsworth, Austin Vo"
Grade 6th graders, Douglas Whited Elementary
Fruits and Veggies
By "Madelynne Welch, Laila Larrew, Diamond Gaona"
Grade 6th, Olivet Elementry
Gena's Pancake Patterns
By Genesis Jimenez
Grade 3, Orchard View School
Generations Intertwined
By Gwendolyn Mary Grace Phair
Grade 7th, Orchard View
Get It Right!
By "Julia Lusnia, "
Grade 6th, Kawana Academy
Hidden Patterns in Nature
By "Evan Jacobs, Eliana Bruce"
Grade 7, Willowside Middle School
How Roses Got Their Color
By "Xochitl Barricklow, Rhodes Oakley"
Grade 4, Oak Grove Elementary
Human Made Patterns
By Savannah Donnell and Brianna Snow
Grade 4th, Oak Grove Elementary School
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