The 2009 Lehigh Valley Student Horror Film Festival is over!

Judging has taken place and congratulations to all the students who participated. The finalists will be posted on Monday, October 19th. The final films will be shown on October 24th at 2:00 pm at Eyer Middle School in Macungie.

This year, schools from the Lehigh Valley and beyond competed and the most dominating school district was East Penn School District. EPSD had the most entries of any school in the Lehigh Valley! We're disappointed more districts didn't get behind this great event for their kids. We utilized social networks, press releases, sent out flyers and post cards to all the schools in the Lehigh Valley.

This is an open event for all High School and Middle Schools to compete in a film festival for cash and prizes, who wouldn't want to be in such an event? This provides students the opportunity to express themselves creatively, work together to meet deadlines and promotes teamwork. Teachers should be jumping at this opportunity to promote their schools and their students!

We really need to understand why there is a disconnect with all the teachers in the Lehigh Valley with the Student Horror Film Festival. If we can’t get more teachers and schools to jump at this opportunity after 5 years of this event -- then only a few kids benefit from the experience instead of the hundreds who should.

Each and every year we get the same responses from both parents and students “This was a great event, my child had a great time, they had sleepovers and really enjoyed doing this assignment.” http://www.emmausarts.org/