Jacob Chang-Rascal, a freshman at WAHS, won runner up in the Virginia Film Festival this year.  He entered his film in the “Action High Schools Competition”, a competition open to all High Schoolers. Chang-Rascals’s six minute film was about a boy who transports through time using a clock he found, his film was entered in the narrative category.

The  film was later showed in the movie theater on the downtown mall before the World War II movie “Run Boy Run”. He says, “I shot it pretty quickly in one and a half days but the editing took one to two weeks.” Chang-Rascal began making films when he was around ten with his friends.  “ I did it with my friends for fun but I was pretty bad.”  In seventh grade Chang-Rascal entered a movie that won the literacy explosion that ten other school competed in. He also won a photography contest in the youth category of the Piedmont Environmental Council Photo Contest.

Chang-Rascal also did all of the filming and editing for the freshman skit which one third place behind the seniors and juniors. An actor in the movie, Chris McGahren said of Chang-Rascal, “Jacob seemed to know what he wanted to do with every shot before he took it and then could set it up and make it look really great which was amazing.”