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2026 CHS AMES Film Contest Entries

The films below were created by the Capital High School teams.

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AMES 2026 CHS Film Selections

Top 3 Student Picks to Represent CHS at 2026 AMES

  • Romantic Hostage
  • Pressure
  • The Hunter and The Fawn

Period 1

Team 3 – Stalker

A semi-famous man becomes paranoid due to a stalker and does whatever it takes to get rid of him

Team 4 – The Party

After pressuring her cautious best friend into a night of partying, a careless teenager makes a fatal choice to drive drunk that shatters both their futures forever.

Team 5 – The Lost Project

A lone wanderer in a zombie apocalypse uses journal entries to retain his humanity.

Team 6 – Reality In Motion

A student tries to prove his innocence to a detective over a murder by recalling memories.

Team 7 – The Box

A high school boy, struggling with his grades, finds a magical box that will complete all his homework for him, at the cost of his life.

Team 8 – Splits

A teenage girl trying for a PR in track loses more than she gains.

Period 2

Team 1 – Percy

A student realizes that his friends are bullies and stops helping them.

Team 2 – Tunnel Vision

A kid playing in a golf tournament battles with the hardships of prioritizing what’s important.

Team 3 – Roommates

A Girl fighting eviction gets a roommate to help pay the bills, who is allergic to her dog, and she must decide whether to get rid of her dog or roommate.

Team 5 – Pressure

A girl struggles to be true to herself while fitting in with a popular group at school, and starts to lose herself.

Team 6 – The Hunter and The Fawn

A young couple symbolizes the dynamic between a hunter and a fawn.

Team 7 – Romantic Hostage

A hitman with a lover must eliminate people of our villain’s choosing to keep his secret from his lover

Team 8 – Acceptance

2 high school best friends apply to the same college, but only one gets in.

Rachel – Unicorns

Two girls wish that they were unicorns, and a magical asteroid falls from the sky and grants them their wish.