GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY \u2014 Riley Bockhol and Stuart Nottke, students at the North Education Career Tech Center in Traverse City, are heading to New York City to showcase a short film they are creating. The duo earned the opportunity after winning a national pitch contest for their film titled \u201cFinding You Again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The students secured their spot by winning the All-American High School Film Festival Pitch Contest last year. As the winners of the contest, they received a professional camera kit which they are using to produce the film. The story follows two girls navigating their first year of high school.<\/p>\n
Bockhol, a film and new media student, developed the concept based on her desire for more stories featuring female leads. The plot focuses on two girls entering their first year of high school with different social motivations. \u201cOne is content with her lifestyle,\u201d Bockhol said. \u201cThe other one, she wants to kind of fit in with the crowd more and become popular. She just doesn\u2019t really want to be the odd one out.\u201d Bockhol said the characters eventually have a falling out, leading to a surprise ending.<\/p>\n
Bockhol recalled learning about their contest win while she was eating cereal and talking to a friend on the phone. \u201cI got an email and it was like, pitch video is an award winner now,\u201d Bockhol said. After hanging up, she immediately called Nottke to share the news, though she said she initially hesitated to celebrate until she was certain the results were correct.<\/p>\n
The students are currently finalizing the script and beginning the casting process. Nottke, who is also a film and new media student, noted that the team is nearly finished with the writing stage. \u201cWe are mostly through with the script and we\u2019re working on other kinds of pre-production,\u201d Nottke said. He added that while he does not have a \u201creference point\u201d for such a large project, he is looking forward to the experience.<\/p>\n
Bockhol said she is eager to move beyond the planning stages and begin filming. \u201cOnce we get out of pre-production we\u2019re going to start production, which I\u2019m really excited about,\u201d Bockhol said. \u201cI think that will be a lot more fun than pre-production. And after that, we\u2019re going to edit and submit it and go to New York.\u201d Bockhol described the opportunity as a \u201ccool experience\u201d that she did not expect to happen.<\/p>\n
Production for \u201cFinding You Again\u201d is scheduled to begin in March. Once the 10-minute movie is filmed and edited, the students will travel to New York City in October for the All-American High School Film Festival. If the film wins at the festival, the pair will receive a prize valued at $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY \u2014 Riley Bockhol and Stuart Nottke, students at the North Education Career Tech Center in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,56877],"class_list":{"0":"post-133073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-social-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}