Founded in 2007 by Trey Wodele and Richard Hansen, the EDU Film Festival has become Minnesota's premier film festival for high school students and an annual event anticipated by youth filmmakers from all over Minnesota.
Each year students from schools across the state attend the festival to view each other's work, take part in panel discussions, network with high school and professional filmmakers, and compete for Best-in-Fest awards.
Each year students from schools across the state attend the festival to view each other's work, take part in panel discussions, network with high school and professional filmmakers, and compete for Best-in-Fest awards.
Shambles
A teenager named Maisy is suffering from depression, but as it worsens, we see it as the trash in her room, growing larger and larger the more she suffers.
7 minutes
Oak Grove
A calm and simple essence of place film. Get to know a beloved park/playground in the fall with beautiful colors and sounds.
1 minute
Rush
A teen tries his best to get to work on time while dealing with a series of unfortunate events.
1 minute
Building
This was an assignment for one of my animation classes. The prompt was "building", and I chose the idea of building a family, specifically a found one, and how stranger can grow close and show kindness to others even in the darkest of times.
1 minute
The Danger is Still Present
The Danger is Still Present is still in development. It takes place in a megastructure of a lab, its empty all except for Cori, and the apparition of their brother. This is a lab from millions of years ago, and whatever it was, was lost to history, no written language used in the lab is still understood. So whatever warnings they may have left, Cori would be ignorant to the hell that lives in the depths.
1 minute
Two Men, One Job
Two simpletons are hired as hit men. Only, they pick the wrong victim.
5 minutes
Alone, Alone
A young girl is losing herself and her identity. She needs to get plugged in to find her true self.
3 minutes
The Lure
it is about me comin home and seeing that my fishing rod needs a new lure on it so I do what it asks and put a new lure on it.
25.0 seconds
The Miscalculation of one stairwell
A student gets more than what they bargained for when they ascend a stairwell.
1 minute
Abandoned
The film takes you around an abandoned property in the middle of Grand Rapids, MN. It shows the personality of all aspects of the space.
2 minutes
Como una Mosca en Leche (Like a Fly in Milk)
A person finds themselves trapped in conformity with a yearn to break out when they are all of a sudden confronted by a fly from the outside.
4 minutes
Friday Night
While deciding what to do for the night, two friends end up discussing their contrasting levels of anxiety around getting in trouble.
3 minutes
