DENHAM SPRINGS — A team of four students and one alumnus from Denham Springs High School (DSHS) won the top prize at the 2026 “Take Your Shot” Student Film Festival, hosted by the Southeastern Channel at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.
The team’s short film titled “Loyalty and Other Crimes” is a Tarantino style film about a mob boss and his associates. The scenes were shot in and around Denham Springs. Current SLU Student and DSHS Alumnus Austin Reynolds wrote and directed the film and submitted the film in the contest.
The team includes Reynolds and DSHS students Chase Gordon, Beau David, Tyler Beatty and Layden Lewis. The four high school students worked alongside Reynolds, providing assistance with production, editing and acting…