On Sunday, February 11,Elmbrook students, parents and family enthusiastically filed into the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center to hear the announcements of the third annual film festival winners.

The Elmbrook 3 Min Film Festival is held every year and is open to ANY Elmbrook student.  Registration for film submission opens October 1 and the award ceremony is held on Super Bowl Sunday at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center.  Details about the competition can be found here.

Finalists were from the following Elmbrook Schools: Swanson, Dixon, Brookfield Elementary, Brookfield East and Brookfield Central, and ranged from 6 to 18 years old.  

The winning highlights include:

• Asmi Dere (with camera help from her mother) won the Fan Favorite for "Excel" in the Younger Ones category. 
• Mikey Chusid from Brookfield Elementary won 1st place with "History of the Arcade" for the Younger Ones category and as he leaped on stage to accept the award he exclaimed loudly: "This is the best day ever!"
• Andrew Vepraska (Cameron Drees, Allen Wilkinson) - winner of Younger Ones for Comedy category with "Intergalactic Feline Mission".
• Sophia Ring, and a group of friends from Brookfield East, with "The Butter Mafia" was awarded the winner of the comedy category 
• Caden Hoffman, Lucy, Heideman, Lilly Martin and Evan Georg, from Brookfield Central received the Fan Favorite as well as the winner of the drama category for "The Therapist's Therapist".

The most anticipated part of the afternoon was Sam Slowik, from Brookfield Central, who won as the overall winner of the festival - receiving the highest votes totals from the Festival judges ever awarded.  He filmed stop-motion "Learning to Fly" with almost 1600 individual pictures and took about 80 hours to seam together. All of the judges were blown away by this film, Marty Skibosh (BE Alum working in Hollywood) even commented "If that student continues he will be working in Hollywood someday."

The overall winners are attached to this email as well as a group picture and the Film Festival Winner.

Comedy	Brainiac!	https://youtu.be/CLcrLWf9Seg
	Learning To Fly	https://youtu.be/NA7JlgZlf_U
	The Butter Mafia	https://youtu.be/K2X_NCnR1mA
Drama	The Therapist’s Therapist	https://youtu.be/tEimnUb1Vy8
	The Scout	https://youtu.be/ppfKRCJrUdo
	Best of Delta	https://youtu.be/8eaAQRuaJaE
Younger Ones	Excel	https://youtu.be/2wh3oOhMBKc
	The History Of Arcades	https://youtu.be/tMgxGzDGn-M
	Sweet Tooth Bully	https://youtu.be/0GEtcXdJF2U
	I.F.M The Intergalactic Feline Mission	https://youtu.be/Y2lF3HbHT1w

Thank you to Brookfield Central Theatre Director Dan Pronley for making this important creative outlet for students possible!

Pictured below: Student winners, Pictured above: Dan Pronley with Sam Slowik