No Time to Waste Fugleflick

You are never too small to make a difference.
-Greta Thunberg

Our Fugleflick filmmakers took up the challenge of making a movie aimed at young children to encourage them to care for the earth. They focused on practical solutions centered around the topic of waste. The students illustrated their ideas with physical and digital art, poetry, and song. Then, they filmed, recorded their original song, choreographed, danced, and edited together this clever little movie. 

√ Recycle
√ Repurpose
√ Don't waste √ Resources
√ Reuse
√ Compost
​√ Don't Litter

Behind the scenes photo from the making of No Time to Waste

One of our goals was to make a movie that could be entered into the One Earth Film Festival. This Chicago area film festival will showcase student-made films on the environment in March 2020. See their blog post announcing the winners.

No Time to Waste (Full Version) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Update: See pictures from the festival

196 submissions
From across the country
19 judges#notimetowaste wins!#fugleflicks #powerofWe #oneEarth #artsed pic.twitter.com/zzKS1tFFbU

— Tricia Fuglestad ☕ (@fuglefun) March 7, 2020

Congrats to our #drydenrocks #Fugleflick filmmakers for your winning film at the #OneEarth film fest
So excited to
hear your #studentvoice
see your #creativity
And watch the results of your #collaboration on the big screen #d25itspersonal #edtech #noTimeToWaste @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/wgA6wjcvKq

— Tricia Fuglestad ☕ (@fuglefun) March 7, 2020

Winnings: Trees and Sea Glass Beads

Our 12 filmmakers won $100 to share and a matching $100 donation to an environmental charity. They chose to plant 100 trees through #TeamTrees and use the prize money to buy sea glass bracelets. These bracelets were made from glass removed from the ocean repurposed into beads. We also bough Mrs. Sessler, our principal a bracelet so we can all  wear them as a reminder that here is no time to waste when caring for the earth.

UPDATE: NextVista.org <<WINNER>>

Next Vista Creative Bridge 2019 Student Contest

When we began editing it became clear that we could make a shorter version of the movie that would fit the requirements for the 90 second student video contest through NextVista.org. We were able to enter the movie in time for the early deadline to receive some extra credit!

No Time to Waste ( 2 min version) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Two Online Film Festivals

Screen Test Jr LIVE April 18th, 11 am
Watch the live stream here
View the program here

Join us Sunday, April 19th at 10 am for the
​Kohl Children's Museum Online Film Festival
View the archived screening & chat

Virtual OEFF Kohls No Time to Waste 4.19.20 from Jennifer Nelson on Vimeo.

Students Made a Crayon Factory!

Students used the money from winning the NextVista contest to buy crayon molds and environmentally friendly packaging to make a crayon factory. They collected broken crayons from K-2nd graders and worked on peeling, sorting, remelting, and packaging them up to give away. This idea came directly from their movie where they encourage children to repurpose old things into something new. 
UPDATE: On March 13th, 2020 the schools closed and moved online to remote learning. I went back into the building on April 27th and collected the materials to complete the project at home. We had enough crayons to give every 1st grader a pack and each filmmaker two. They were labeled with the message: 
Remelted crayons from our hearts
since there is no eARTh without ART

Crayon Factory Process from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Want to sing along? 

I set up the song and lyrics on our karaoke page. Check it out here.

Another UPDATE: Invited to CEFF

Our filmmakers were invited to screen their movie at the Virtual Colorado Environmental Film Festival in Feb. 2021. These movies were viewed online asynchronously with live talks scheduled at different times of the week. Two of our filmmakers were invited to join in live.