MAD Academy Santa Barbara High School

Join the MAD Academy Alumni Association today. Go to madacad.com/alumni/ and add your contact information and join our LinkedIn group so that you can be invited to exclusive events and speakers!

Coming Soon: The MAD Alumni Association! Stay tuned for more photos, Alumni news and events. Tag yourself in the photos as you walk down nostalgia lane.

The MAD Academy Class of 2016 are a bunch of rock stars. Check out their crib in this student made Senior Celebration video!

MAD Academy Senior Video - 2016 An end of the year "thank you" video filmed by the class of 2016 at Santa Barbara High School's MAD Academy.

Photos from the recent trip to Mozambique and India where five MAD seniors were filming a documentary about a landmine victim receiving a prosthetic leg.

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The finalists for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 10-10-10 competition are in! There are 5 MAD finalists (out of a total of 10 finalists!). Rowan Peake, Fabiane Friden, and Dominick Lopez are finalists for Screenplay. Dane Holroyd and Maddy Rotman are finalists for Film. Congrats!

10-10-10 Student Screenwriting and Filmmaking Competition (10 Days – 10 Crews – 10 Films) The 10-10-10 Student Screenwriting and Filmmaking Competition started in 2004 and is a highly successful educational program developed by SBIFF to bring together stu…

MAD Academy was featured as the lead story in 805 Connect today! Check it out!

Our Future is in Good Hands I recently spoke with Dan Williams, the director of the Multimedia Arts and Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School, and am more convinced than ever that our future leaders are in good hands. One of the cornerstones of the 805connect project is the alliance we have built with educational leaders…

Congrats to all the MAD Seniors c/o 2015! What a great student run celebration today! Don't miss this amazing video the seniors created about their experience in MAD.

MAD Academy Senior Video 2014-2015 2014-2015 MAD seniors made this video to celebrate their time in the MAD Academy.

Incredible article in the Santa Barbara Independent today by MAD Alumni and Media Arts Teacher Donnie Hedden. Check it out!

A Santa Barbara Homecoming Surf Photographer Donnie Hedden Returns To His Childhood Home, Rediscovering Its Waves And Ways.

Guest Speaker Nich Philips spoke with our Film Production classes last Friday and taught them the secrets to shooting great aerial photography! Check out this awesome video!

The Drone Guest speaker and drone pilot Nich Philips showing my students and I the basics of aerial shooting!

Big congrats to Hana Antrim and Graham Collector for being selected as finalists for the 2015 10-10-10 Student Screenwriting Competition, a part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival! We look forward to seeing your scripts on the big screen in February!