{"id":172786,"date":"2026-04-22T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:02:28","slug":"lights-camera-action-young-creators-competing-in-lehigh-valley-film-festival-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172786\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, camera, action! Young creators competing in Lehigh Valley film festival | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

EMMAUS, Pa. – Local student filmmakers are getting their shot at the big screen this weekend in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n

69 News Reporter Sydney Kay has the story from Emmaus with more on how young creators are competing in an annual student film festival.<\/p>\n

The Emmaus Arts Commission<\/a> is putting on its 21st annual Student Film Festival. The event invites middle and high school students from across the Lehigh Valley to showcase their filmmaking talents.<\/p>\n

The festival will take place at the Emmaus Theatre<\/a> on 19 South Fourth Street on Sunday at 2 p.m. It’s open to the general public.<\/p>\n

Doors open at 1:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Participating students get free entry. The ticket price for seniors and students is $5, and $7 for adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lindsey Kleinberg with the\u00a0Emmaus Arts Commission said the event has grown from four teams with two kids in each team to a gala-style awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

The theme of this year’s festival is “Metamorphosis.”\u00a0It will focus on character arcs, change, and coming into your own.<\/p>\n

The films will be judged based on cinematography, acting, directing, sound, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMMAUS, Pa. – Local student filmmakers are getting their shot at the big screen this weekend in Lehigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,1681,3705],"class_list":["post-172786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-entertainment","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}