This block features the completed films from the Big Sky Documentary Youth Fellowship, a five-month-long mentorship program that gives a select group of MCPS high school students the opportunity to make a short documentary.

Youth fellowship Short - With college fastly approaching, an attempt is made to recapture the filmmaker's favorite high school memory.

Friend Pool

With college fastly approaching, an attempt is made to recapture the filmmaker's favorite high school memory.

Youth Fellowship Short - Let's talk. Teens in Cars presents the parking lot thoughts of teenagers in 2022.

Teens in Cars

Let's talk. Teens in Cars presents the parking lot thoughts of teenagers in 2022.

Youth Fellowship Short - Ex-Gourds frontman Jimmy Smith and blues musician Pat McKay are no ordinary two-man band. Jimmy is best known for his two decades performing with the famed alt-country outfit, The Gourds as one of the principal songwriters and bass players, and Pat is famed for his folk-inspired, bluesy tunes in the band Two Minute Puzzle. Though the days of The Gourds and Two Minute Puzzle have come to an end, the two have come together for a whole new sound.&nbsp;

Two Man Band

Ex-Gourds frontman Jimmy Smith and blues musician Pat McKay are no ordinary two-man band. Jimmy is best known for his two decades performing with the famed alt-country outfit, The Gourds as one of the principal songwriters and bass players, and Pat is famed for his folk-inspired, bluesy tunes in the band Two Minute Puzzle. Though the days of The Gourds and Two Minute Puzzle have come to an end, the two have come together for a whole new sound.

Youth Fellowship Short - "Music, for those that are heavily involved, it's a part of them, it’s a part of their soul, it’s like their religion,” John Campbell quotes in Two Sides, Same Record. A documentary about two different sides of music coming together to reveal tight bonds and rich experiences. One side: John Campbell, a 64-year-old audio engineer that has been a part of the music industry for 44 years; the other: Hallie Racicot, a 17-year-old songwriter born with a natural gift.

Two Sides, Same Record

"Music, for those that are heavily involved, it's a part of them, it’s a part of their soul, it’s like their religion,” John Campbell quotes in Two Sides, Same Record. A documentary about two different sides of music coming together to reveal tight bonds and rich experiences. One side: John Campbell, a 64-year-old audio engineer that has been a part of the music industry for 44 years; the other: Hallie Racicot, a 17-year-old songwriter born with a natural gift.

Youth Fellowship Short - Untying the social strings enabled by social media, a teenager attempts to create a new normal by removing themself from social media entirely. Will they become an outcast or finally put an end to a technology addiction?

Untied

Untying the social strings enabled by social media, a teenager attempts to create a new normal by removing themself from social media entirely. Will they become an outcast or finally out an end to a technology addiction?

Youth fellowship Short - WITHIN THE WALLS centers around a collection of female paranormal investigators and why they keep coming back to the Old Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.

Within the Walls

WITHIN THE WALLS centers around a collection of female paranormal investigators and why they keep coming back to the Old Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.

Youth Fellowship Shorts

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