Julian Thieme from North Eugene High School took the first place prize of $200 for his comic video "My 4 Extraordinary Years of High School." In his video, an unhappy freshman finds his life taking a dramatic turn for the better after he's exposed to secret goop created by a crazed science teacher. Click2View.

A team of students from South Eugene High School took the $150 second place prize for their animated story of an agonizing suicide attempt, ironically titled "The Perfect Suicide." Nathan Arbuckle, Michael Osborn-Grosso, Aaron Rocha and Faye Tyson created complex animation in which each scene was a brilliant contrast of light and dark, motion and stillness. Click2View.

Brendan Albano, also of South Eugene High School, is the first student to be a two-time winner, taking home the third place $100 prize for his hallway musical "In Passing." Albano wrote and directed a musical score for two students who are attracted to each other but afraid to say "hello." In a fantasy sequence, they sing about their true feelings for one another. Click2View.

In the live-action category, Julian Thieme, a home-schooled student in Eugene, took the First Place and Best in Show for his Hitchock-like short called "Due Date" in which a student struggles through a test-anxiety nightmare. This was Thieme's second year as a first place winner in the Youth Visions contest.

Second Place and Peoples' Choice award went to a pair of seniors from Churchill High School, Mary Needham and Amy Dennis, for their film "Double Take." Featuring a classroom of goofy characters, the film portrayed an "evil" twin standing in for her more normal sister to give a class presentation. Click2View.

Third place prize in the live-action category was awarded to Kolby Schnelli, a senior at Springfield High School, for his music video, "When the Sun Sleeps." This skillfully filmed black and white drama told a frightening tale of a jilted lover who is chased and beaten by his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Click2View.

First place and Peoples' Choice were awarded to "Alien Hunter," a science fiction tale of hi-tech hand-to-hand combat by Josh Miller, Eric Dawson and their team from Churchill High School. Click2View.

Second place was awarded to two films: "An Inconvenient Hypocrisy," a satire depicting "Eco-Nazis" as the stormtroopers fulfilling Al Gore's mission, by Kyle Freske and Trevor Brooks from Creswell High School.

Also in second place was "Eclipse," a one-minute, exquisitely crafted animation by Emma Gibson, Ayla Rose Roark and their team of South Eugene High School students.

Another South Eugene team took Third Place with "The Sudden Adventure," a live action film that was shot with playful camera work that both altered perspective and editing that mimicked animation. This film was the work of Asa Clifford, Camille Westerberg and a team including music by South student Brooks Robertson.

A fourth place prize was awarded to Marshall Rutter from Churchill High School for his film "Lost" which traces the confused and uneasy wanderings of a single character.