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Discover the spirit and value of our community, the environment and local heroes.

Competitions were explorations of this theme. Students were from grades 7-12 in Perth County.

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Song Writing Competition

The Judges included

David Prosser, Director of Communications for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Rick Fox, Director of Music for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Barbara Dunn-Prosser, performer and professor of voice at University of Western Ontario; and Barry Payne, Stratford, Ontario songwriter, whose band String Bone, is receiving international, critical acclaim for its latest CD, nadir

Six winners were chosen from entries received from students from across the county.

Winners

• Poppy Kipfer - A Place Called Home | Grade 8 Montessori - song
• Jennifer Oesch - Back Home | Grade 11, Northwestern Secondary School
• Luc Fisher, Tyler Zybura, Amy Schell - Remember Me Forever | Grade 11, Northwestern Secondary School
• Sam Kochany - Magic of Youth | Grade 12, Central Secondary School
• Abigail Winter-Culliford, Sadie Culliford , Gary Winter (family entry) - Havin' an Avon Kinda Day | Grade 8, Downie Public School
• Kirstie Carter - Home on Your Side | Grade 10, Central Secondary School

Winners receive a cash prize of $200 and an extended learning opportunity.

They work with a professional composer/arranger on their piece and  take that developed piece into the recording studio, where it then is produced with professional musicians.

Listen to the results of this evolving process.

perthsong@hermione-presents.com

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Any songs created during this competition process are licensed under Creative Commons

 

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Poppy Kipfer - A Place Called Home | Grade 8 Montessori

 

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Documentary Competition

The Judges included

Ted Boniface, the liaison between Fanshawe College and DocFest Stratford as the Educational Outreach Coordinator for ‘no boundaries. He has served on awards juries for the Geminis, Hot Docs and the Writers Guild; Christine St. Lawerence producer, director, videographer, and writer for many years working at the Video Center of the New York Institute of Technology; and Chuck Scott who has served on juries for Genies, Geminis, Saskfilm, SMPIA, NATPE awards and many more.

Winners

• 1st- Right to Play - Tanner Trachsel
• 2nd- Canadian Heroes: Sir Isaac Brock - Kenny Edwards
• 3rd- Gentle Rain - Cody Romphf

Honourable mention

• A New Kind of Kewl- Emelie Rowe
• Its Just Home – Carl Farrell, Sebastian Russell
• Off the Wall- Natalie Blacklock, Max Martin

To view Docs click here

Documentary cash prizes of $300, $200 and $100 were awarded and videos are posted to multiple websites.

Students have benefited from looking at this region through the lens of the environment, entrepreneurship and role models. The discussions in class and the people that donated their time and expertise (including those that didn't make it past the cutting room floor) all had impacts on the future of these students. Hope for a viable lifestyle in this region, and the world at large, has an economic impact we cannot measure in immediate dollars and cents. The transfer of communications skills and the empowerment of youth are invaluable investments in our future.

perthdocumentary@hermione-presents.com