The story of TheFilmSchool is the story of its students. Graduates of our intensive three-week program are making significant progress in the film community.

• Kevin Sabourin recently partnered up with TheFilmSchool's John Jacobsen to film and edit "The Artists Toolbox" for public television. Kevin has also wrapped up post production for the 35th anniversary Seattle International Film Festival's celebratory short film with director Rick Stevenson, and is currently co-producing several projects with Rick throughout the summer.
  
  
• Joshua Bourland won the Great American Short Screenplay Contest 2008. His winning script, "Arthur," was part of the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival's Fly Film Series and premiered in May.
  
  
• TheFilmSchool alums Sue Corcoran and Steven Schardt helped produce the Sundance Special Jury prize-winning feature "Humpday," which also was nominated for the Grand Jury prize. Acquired by Magnolia Films, the film also showed at Cannes Film Festival 2009.
  
  
• Andy McCone and Robert ParksNight won the 2008 IFP/Seattle Spotlight Award for "Night Blind." Kate Wharton has joined as associate producer.
  
  
• Kent Jameson won first place in the Screenwriting Category of the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest.
  
  
• Damian Stonebraker and David Sharkey's "Wrong Side of the Track" won the audience award in the 48-hour Film Contest. Their team, Remote Viewing Aparatus, included other FilmSchool alumni.
  
  
• Ranielle Gray is a Quarter Finalist for the 2008 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards with "Wishful Thinking."
  
  
• George Thomas Jr. was a finalist in the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival's PitchSlam with his comedy, "Not My Problem," about a secretly despondent self-help guru who gets caught up in international intrigue while advising the President of the United States.
  
  
• Rene Rudge and Katherine Clegg tied for second place in the Great American Short Screenplay Contest that TheFilmSchool sponsored along with the Seattle International Film Festival.
  
  
• Johnny Broderson made the finals in the 2008 Port Townsend Film Festival's 48hr Fast Filmmaking Competition. Johnny won it two years in a row previously.
  
  
• Randy Webb finished 2nd in the 2008 Northwest Screenwriters Guild PitchFest with his script, "Ordinary Joe."
  
  
• Ranielle Gray is moving on to the 2nd round of the WA State Screenplay Competition for 2008.
  
  
• Corrie Moore’s script and directing endeavor, Dark Horse, was selected to premiere at SIFF, 2008!
  
  
• Winda Benedetti was selected to join one of the three teams making a Fly Film for the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival. Three of Seattle's up and coming directors were chosen to make short films for the international film festival. As part of SIFF's annual Fly Filmmaking Challenge, the directors are given the equipment and support to make a short film, but are also required to make the film under certain constraints (a.k.a. "flies in the ointment"). This year, the teams were given a week to write a screenplay and three days to shoot the film. The teams were also required to shoot their short films in only one of four locations and the location was not revealed until the last minute. Winda wrote a script called "Shut Eye" for the team headed by co-directors Andy McCone (another FilmSchool graduate!) and Joe Shapiro. It's a story about a man hospitalized with a fatal case of insomnia and the comatose woman who becomes his roommate.
  
  
• Sue Corcoran’s short film Circus of Infinity showed at the Seattle International Film Festival, San Francisco Indie Fest and the Science Fiction Film Festival. Her feature Gory Gory Hallelujah is also available at major retailers and was recently picked up for international distribution.
  
  
• Heather Hughes signed with a major Hollywood agency for a new script mentored through TheFilmSchool. She has advanced, placed or won in the San Diego Film Festival, Slamdance, Austin, Kairos, Beverly Hills, One in Ten, Page, Phoenix, and was a finalist for Sundance. Heather was in the top 3 percent for the Academy Awards Nicholls fellowship and has been awarded a residency at Hedgebrook.
  
  
• Kate Wharton and Alex Tobias took first and second prizes, respectively, in Jeff Kitchen’s national screenwriting competition.
  
  
• Lisa Halpern took second place the Washington State Screenwriting Competition in 2005. She has optioned a screenplay to Lockspring Productions and was a quarter finalist in the Writer’s Network Screenplay competition, and the American Zoetrope screenplay contest. Lisa was also placed on the Consider list of Screenwriting Magazine’s AAA contest.
  
  
• Winda Benedetti's feature screenplay Freak won the Washington State Screenwriting competition in 2006 and her screenplay Sundown has advanced to the final round in the 2007 competition. Her screenplays Sundown and Fist have been optioned by Lockspring Pictures, and her short films Geek Like Me and Interview with the Zombie have appeared in festivals around the country, including the One Reel Film Festival and The California Independent Film Festival.