Sumner High School’s Video Club will host a film festival benefiting the victims of the Haitian earthquake.

For $5 admission, “Spartavision: Film Festival For a Cause” will feature several local short movies and a red carpet event at 6 p.m. April 30.

Spartavision Productions Video Club founder Blake Fealy, junior, is working closely with Broadcasting/Video Technology teacher Marshall Blansfield and Hayden Lemaster, senior, to organize and advertise the event.

The hosts for the festival will be Grant Fulton, Nadine Mortell and Bonney Lake High School student Zach Goodsell.

Spartavision has received several entries already and movies are being accepted through Friday to be considered for screening. Movies must be 15 to 20 minutes maximum.

“The biggest challenge of the film festival is to get the word out that this film festival won’t be just a goof-off film festival like what has happened several times in the past,” Fealy wrote in an e-mail. “Spring break is a huge roadblock in the path to success for this, because of the way it limits time.”

Spartavision is using the daily school announcements to get the word out. After spring break, club members will wage a poster-and-flier campaign from Enumclaw to Seattle in order to pack in the seats.

Reach Daniel Nash at dnash@courierherald.com or 360-802-8010.