I've been a fan of Wayland He's Life of Wayland since Rebecca Devlin first shared it with me a few years ago. At the 6th Annual Sunset Community Film Festival, held at Ulloa Elementary School in San Francisco on March 5, He made dozens more fans. His latest short, a funny animation called Worm War I, won the audience award for best film, and I heard many a serious discussion between 6th graders and uproarious laughter from the 3rd graders sitting behind me about the video.
The entire program, chosen and compiled by youth media group SCREAM members, was very good and it was professionally well presented. The best part was sitting in a theater full of an audience of young people, watching a program entirely made and presented by young people, and experiencing the extreme pleasure of everyone involved. Half of the time I had no idea why they were laughing, but they sure were having a good time.
this sounds like so much fun. i just watched Life of Wayland and it's well-made! how old is he now? this must be a lot of work for rebecca... i went to a student film festival once in san diego a few years ago, and it was all fancy at the copley theater in downtown san diego.. they emulated the oscars in an obnoxious way- and the videos were mostly made by the adults. it's always exciting to see videos that really feel like a youth production.
ReplyDeleteThat's what's really great about the way Rebecca works, complete dedication to the kids doing everything themselves. Wayland is a freshman in college (at UC Santa Cruz) now.
ReplyDeleteoh, and check out this awesome report on the local SF Chinese news station about the fest: http://www.eglobalcommunity.com/zh/view/65185
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