The creative talents of Ward Melville High School student Henry Dacosta has earned top recognition at two film competitions.
Dacosta's film “House 9” has been accepted into the ninth annual Santa Monica, California Teen Film Festival, and he was awarded second place and a scholarship for a PSA he created about distracted driving for Project Yellow Light.
The Santa Monica Teen Film Festival is an interdepartmental initiative between the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, the Santa Monica Public Library, the Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center, Office of Sustainability & Environment and City TV. Its purpose is to showcase and provide an outlet for the creative talents of teen filmmakers, as well as encourage youth to use the art of filmmaking as a form of creative expression and commentary on the world in which they live. Although the festival is open to films by teens from around the globe, the public screenings take place in Santa Monica.
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Project Yellow Light is a national scholarship competition designed to bring about change and end distracted driving.
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