Short film competition explores ‘Power of Community’ in Saratoga
Students from Prospect High School cleaned up in the third annual EmPower Silicon Valley Short Film Competition sponsored by Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE).
The Sunnyvale-based green energy aggregator asked local students to make films illustrating the transition to clean energy around the themes “Go Electric” and “The Power of Community.”
Prospect student Calvin Cha won the Energy Innovation Award for his film “Powering the Future: Go Electric.” The award came with a $3,000 scholarship. Making the film required a deep dive into the data behind going electric.
“I learned about the actual statistics for electric vehicles or solar energy,” Calvin said in a statement. “I knew about how important they were before, but through this short film I was able to quantify it and see the numbers behind why you should switch to EVs or build solar panels.”
Among the entrants who won honorable mention awards of $2,000 each was Prospect’s Reena Boddukuri for Best Documentary Short for “Our Skies.”
The EmPower Silicon Valley Competition is an SVCE education initiative. The short films were judged by a panel of SVCE board members and staff members.
“Each year I am delighted to see what students come up with to creatively tell stories and educate their parents, community and peers about climate change issues and solutions,” said SVCE Board Chair George Tyson, a Los Altos Hills councilmember, in a statement.
View the winning short films at SVCleanEnergy.org/Empower-SV.