Holliston July 2016

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Starting back in August, the
team chose the Service Learning
Challenge for this year’s DI
season. As part of the Service
Learning Challenge, the team
had to plan a community event
that would give back to the community
in some way. The team
chose to host the first ever Holliston
Film Festival in order to
make money for the Art Department
at Holliston High School,
which had suffered budget cuts
for this school year. Their January
31 Film Festival was a success
having garnered 14 film submissions
and an audience of over 60
people. The festival raised $413.
The team solicited prizes from
local businesses for the top film
submissions: The Candy Cottage,
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The team at the State Tournament doing their skit. (l to r) Joshua
Perlmutter, Kent Perlmutter, Abby Meltzer, Ryan Cahill, and James
Crews (on guitar).
Dairy Queen all donated gift
certificates.
The team also found community
partners with experience
in film or the arts to judge the
films: the judges included Daniel
Knapp, award-winning producer
of educational media; Raouf
Zaki, film director and producer
with a filmography on IMDb;
Doug Lack, Fine & Performing
Arts Department Leader and
Distinguished Educator; and
New England landscape painter
Holly Lombardo.
At the end of the film festival,
the team handed out the first
place prize to Kyra Allen for her
film “Her Name Was Emily”;
second place and Audience
Award went to Javier Rojo from
Venezuela for his film “Spring is
Here”; and third place went to
Nolan Murphy for his film “Pinball
Wizard”. The team decided
to award the $413 to the Holliston
High School Art Department
under the care of Mr. Doug Lack
so that he could purchase a color
printer for the school.
Now that the team’s community
event was over, they had to
put together a skit to showcase
the event to DI appraisers at the
Regional Tournament, which
took place at Holliston High
School on March 19. The skit
they created featured four super
heroes: Captain Plan It, Film
Buff, Morph Man, and Smooth
Two Holliston DI team members, Abby Meltzer and Ryan Cahill, giving
a check for $413 to Mr. Doug Lack, Fine & Performing Arts Department
Leader and instructor at Holliston High School.
Talk who defeated the dreaded
villain, Budget Cuts. The skit
also featured original music
(both composition and lyrics) by
team member James Crews, who
played guitar during the skit.
The team won first place in the
Regional Tournament and went
on to the State Tournament at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(WPI) on March 26. The State
Tournament had stiff competition,
but the team was able to
place 2nd. The top two teams
at States qualify for the Global
Finals tournament in Knoxville,
TN from May 24-29. One other
Holliston team also qualified for
Global Finals; this team, consisting
of Holliston High School
sophomores Maria Gentile, Olivia
Palmer, Jenna Pralat, and
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