With JC students and alumni directing or starring in eight of the 10 films shown in the student film division, the second annual Bel Air Film Festival was a hot set.

Senior Brooke Basta entered two videos, “Don’t You Wish This Could Actually Happen?” and “Super Fresh Love” in the festival. “Super Fresh Love,” an animated music video that was comprised of 700 individual pictures drawn by Basta and took three months to make, won both the Judge’s Award and the Audience Favorite.

Benn Ayd, class of ’10, was the runner-up for the Judge’s Award with his film “School.” Ayd completed the film, a mockumentary of a typical JC school day, as his senior project.

Henry Basta, class of ’07, and Jay Karolenko, class of ’08, also known as the Sharpened Crayons, entered three videos, one of which was an already award-winning advertisement for PBS.com called “Online to Explore.”

Basta and Karolenko also entered a joint video “Pineapples,” which they only had 48 hours to create for another film festival, and a promotional video for Towson’s college library “What I Like About Cook.”

Erin Hanratty, class of ’10, entered a music video of an original song called “Wastin’ My Time,” which was also part of Hanratty’s senior project. Senior Viktor Polyak, junior James Mews, Kara Jester, class of ’10 and Charlotte Hagerman, class of ’10, also entered their video “Addict.”

The only other contestant was an eighth grader named Gracie Bret. Bret attends Bel Air Middle and has already made over 50 short films.

Rebecca Jessop, the festival director, said that this year’s film festival was “a really fun experience.”

Nicky Hatzidimitriou, class of ’10, who showed her senior project film, “Scarred,” agreed with Jessop. “There were a lot of good videos, and a lot of variety,” Hatzidimitriou said.

Martha Schick can be reached for comment at [email protected].