LAGUNA BEACH : Fifth-Graders Score With Anti-Drug Film
A 26-minute drug-fighting video written, produced and enacted by 10 fifth-graders at Top of the World Elementary School has won second place in a statewide competition.
In the film, the students dramatize, in skits, essays and song, the rewards of remaining drug-free.
The Top of the World class competed in the largest category (75 entries from fourth- through sixth-grades) in the contest, sponsored by the California Media and Library Educators Assn. The association encourages student expression in media technology.
The festival, now in its 24th year, focused on video, film, slides, animation, “claymation” and computer-generated production from elementary schools through colleges.
Funding for the Kid Vid, as participants dubbed it, came principally from a PTA grant by First American Capital Bank of Laguna Beach and Corona del Mar. Production was an after-school activity by volunteers who learned about cameras, script writing and filming from Cathy Krinsky, a former owner of a video production firm and a PTA chairwoman, and Linda Jarhaus, PTA president and teacher.
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