The Oliver White Hill Foundation (OWHF), in partnership with the Virginia Museum for Fine Arts, announces the Oliver White Hill Foundation Social Justice Short Film Competition as follows:
Elementary Division winners: Jordan and Kennedy Wright for their film, Oliver Hill. The Wright duo used various pictures and showcased various locations around Richmond for the film.
*The Under 20 Division 1st place winner, Natalie Christensen, a Mills Godwin High School student, for her film Monumental.
* Second and Third place winners in this category: Reid Burton’s Wanderer and Nabeel Raza’s Freedom Abridged, respectively. Burton and Raza are both participants in Roanoke’s Grandin Film Lab.
*Alexandra Wright, a student at Code RVA Regional High School, received Honorable Mention for her film, Oliver Hill.
*First place winner for the Professional/Open Division, is Petersburg Rising, a documentary trailer, submitted by Alan Blankstein and Kahil Dotay. Second place winner is Liberty School of Education Ph.D. candidate Olivia Rosalind Dodson for her film, The Fight.
The Oliver White Hill Social Justice Short Film Competition was open to elementary, high school and college students and professional filmmakers and was designed to highlight the life and legacy of one of Virginia’s most beloved native sons, Civil Rights Attorney and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Oliver White Hill, Sr., as well as, to promote dialogue on social justice issues.
These films will screen at a special event at the Virginia Museum for Fine Arts 6:00 – 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 22. Tickets for the event are available at $8.00 for non-members and $ 5.00 for members.
The Foundation and VMFA congratulate these filmmakers for a job well done!
