SEQUIM — Lara Lichten and Caitlyn McNulty didn’t expect, or even want, the attention their four-minute movie got.
But “Satired Sequim,” winner of the first student film competition held at Sequim High School on April 21, caused a bit of a stir at this week’s City Council meeting.
The film, originally a class project, is a montage of footage starring the west-side big-box stores, set to the girls’ rewrite of the song “Silver Bells.”
“Sequim’s turning into a city,” the pair of 17-year-olds harmonize. “Soon it will be Silverdale.”
Lichten and McNulty aren’t happy about that. They prefer the small town they grew up in to Silverdale’s cluster of chain stores.
Apparently, so did many of the Sequim-area residents who attended Monday’s council meeting. As the film ended, they hollered, clapped, even whistled.
So “Satired” will be shown this afternoon, perhaps for the last time, at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave. Screenings of it and other winners of the student film competition will run from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
