Kodiak High School student Hannah Kaplan recently turned a school project into a statewide spectacle.

Kaplan made a 10-minute film for a class assignment that will be featured at the Anchorage Film Festival this weekend.

“People just said they had watched it and stuff, so I thought I might as well enter it,” Kaplan said.

The film will shown during a segment of the festival called Snowdance that honors Alaskan filmmakers.

Kaplan’s film is a satirical piece about female skateboarders who aren’t quite professionals. The girls attempt to skateboard around downtown Kodiak and other locations while offering commentary about their skating.

“Are my parents proud of me? Well, they might be. If they weren’t killed in a huge volcano accident,“ one of the actresses jokes to the camera.

Kaplan got her idea when she was visiting a friend.

“Her little brother and his friends, they all have these cheap skateboards,” Kaplan said. “And I thought, OK, this is what I’m going to do.”

Several of Kaplan’s friends starred in the film.

“I kind of just let them loose to do their own thing,” she said.

Kaplan faced a few challenges during the filming, including how to thread a cohesive story through the movie and what to cut out.

“It was hours and hours of footage I went through to put it together,” she said.

Kaplan borrowed a fisheye lens from a friend to shoot the movie,

“I was really grateful for that, it looked actually kind of real,” she said.

Kaplan said she hopes to study film next year in Berlin. She has dual citizenship because her mother hails from Germany.

“Berlin has been known for some pretty cool films,” she said.

She doesn’t know if she will pursue a longer film in the future.

“I really like shorts,” Kaplan said. “It’s kind of like poetry versus a whole novel.”