Digital Video students at SLA work tirelessly to produce documentaries, narrative films, and experimental projects, yet once those films are turned in and presented, they largely disappear. They get buried in the cloud, forgotten, and never seen again. Digflix was created to change that.

Digflix is a student-built website designed to archive and celebrate the work of Dig Vid students by giving their films a permanent, accessible home. The site was built with a bright, intentional design to reflect the creativity of the students it showcases. Each film is accompanied by a written reflection from the filmmaker covering their creative process, the tools they used, what they are proud of, and what they want viewers to take away.

The project began with a Google Form sent to current and former Dig Vid students, collecting both their films and their reflections. From there, films were uploaded to YouTube as unlisted videos and embedded on the site, with reflections shaped into cohesive paragraphs. Building the site from scratch with no prior web development experience required significant independent research and problem solving at every stage.

Digflix matters because it fills a gap that is easy to overlook but hard to ignore once you see it. It extends the life of student work, provides future filmmakers with a reference for what is possible, and turns a pattern of loss into a lasting celebration of creativity and growth.

My capstone is RocketFest, a student-run Film and Photo Festival for public high school students of the Philadelphia School District. It’s taken a ton of work to get RocketFest to the point where it is now. Starting with brainstorming, from notes apps to google docs we spent hours thinking of ideas and thinking of how to achieve them. Then came outreach, emailing venues, schools, individual artists, potential volunteers, and professionals. We even got a booth at a CTE event. Between Braskem and other funding resources we spent a lot of time perfecting and practicing our pitches to try to get as much funding as possible to make RocketFest 2026 special. This meant creating slideshow presentations, and writing speeches. A film festival can’t happen without getting the word out there, so I spent a lot of time making graphics and posters. Our work was rounded out with logistical tasks; creating the submission form, organizing volunteers, planning day-of logistics, spending our funding money, and nailing down a venue. RocketFest has been a great learning process for me, and I plan on keeping a lot of the lessons I learned this year in mind during my coming years. The biggest lesson being that you can never be too ahead. At the start of the year we were so ahead of the curve, but as the year went on we began to slowly fall more and more down because of the “we’re ahead” mentality. So going forward I know not to get too cocky.

For my Senior Capstone, I created The Nurse’s Truth, a YouTube channel featuring interviews with four nursing specialists; a nurse practitioner, neuro ICU nurse, a CRNA, and a nurse midwife. These interviews are to help students explore nursing as a profession and more importantly the different things you can do as a nurse. The project grew from my own journey of discovering that nurses, not doctors, provide the hands-on patient care that I always wanted to give. After my own curiosity, I wanted to make sure that these insights were available to others too. All interviews were conducted over Zoom, which solved the logistical challenge of one subject joining from Costa Rica. Filming spanned three weeks, coordinated around busy nursing schedules. Post-Production took roughly 20 hours, including editing, graphics, music, and designing the channel branding in Photoshop. I independently managed every aspect of this project; the proposal, outreach, scheduling, filming, and publishing. This project has become a significant milestone in my personal growth. My hope is that The Nurse’s Truth serves SLA students considering nursing, and inspires CTE peers to connect their programs with their passions.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://youtube.com/@thenursestruth?si=JbRBjCIe3pUt9Hj6

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FsQNvOce1tF6cBUkJZTn7yDgP-JNs2Hlr3j0aY5Hfnk/edit?usp=drivesdk