"Not Yet," a Film by Arlington Student Team The PUNishers, Nominated for Best Student Film at the 72 Hour Film Fest

A team of high school students from the Arlington Career Center and Yorktown High School recently participated in the 72 Hour Film Festival in Frederick, Maryland.  The Arlington team, known as The PUNishers, was one of 47 teams which participated in this years competition, 12 of which were student teams.  As the title suggests, each team had only 72 hours in which to write, record, and edit an original film creation. Each year the festival comes up with a new theme for the competition which is announced during the Thursdays evening launch festivities of the competition.  In this years competition, the festival gave the participating teams two pictures; the first picture had to be the teams first frame and the second had to be the last frame of their film.  The rest was up to each teams ingenuity and creativity.  Each film in the student competition could be no longer than 5 minutes and 30 seconds long.

The PUNishers, led by Jeremy Cannon and Charlotte Pence, submitted their film "Not Yet."  The film reflects a subject matter near to the hearts of many a high school senior; the decision of whether to apply for college.  In the film, Abby, played by Maddie Richhart, must decide whether she will leave her older brother, who took a job straight out of high school, and her younger brother.  The siblings' mother, in order to make ends meet, is working long hours, leaving to Abby to care for the family.

The PUNishers film was one of three films nominated for Best Student Film. All nominated films were premiered Saturday evening Oct. 8 at the film festival in the Weinberg Center in Frederick, Maryland.  The Student category included films by both high school and college students.  The category was won by a college team. 

Not Yet from PUNishers Productions on Vimeo.

"Not Yet"

Directed by:
Jeremy Cannon
Charlotte Pence

Starring:
Maddie Richhart
Steven Duffy
Nick McNulty
Ariel Cadby-Spicer

Written by:
Charlotte Pence
Steven Duffy
Jeremy Cannon
Ryan Williams
Tom McNulty
Tim Russell

Editors:
Ryan Williams
Jeremy Cannon
Charlotte Pence
Tom McNulty
Steven Duffy

Sound Mixing:
Tim Russell

Crew:
Edward Meese
Ryan Williams
Tim Russell
Steven Duffy
Nick McNulty
Robi Rahman

Shot in Arlington, Virginia