Eastside Junior Places 3rd with Documentary
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Eastside Junior Places 3rd with Documentary
Zoey Washington, a junior at Eastside Technical Center and Frederick Douglass High School, placed third in the Central Division of C-SPAN’s StudentCam contest. Her entry, which earned a $750 prize, was titled “Balancing the Scales: Race and the Criminal Justice System.”
StudentCam is a national video documentary competition that encourages students in grades 6-12 to think critically about issues that affect our communities and our nation. C-SPAN annually awards cash prizes totaling $100,000 to the student filmmakers of the top 150 documentaries. Since this is the 20th anniversary of the contest, C-SPAN added $50,000 in prizes for $150,000 altogether in 2024. This year’s theme was “Looking Forward while Considering the Past.”
Zoey, a third year Media Arts student, spent four months working on her documentary, which features interviews with Fayette Commonwealth Attorney Kimberly Baird and Fayette Court of Appeals Judge Pamela Goodwine.
Contact: Michelle Rauch, broadcasting teacher at Eastside