It’s too bad that Tyler Hale, 17, doesn’t return to Wynne High School for his senior year until Aug. 18. If he were back in class this week, he’d have something to brag about to his fellow Yellowjackets in the self-proclaimed “City with a Smile” in southeast Arkansas.

He could say: “Hey, my movie’s online today!”

Out of thousands of applicants nationwide, Hale was one of 11 teenagers chosen to go to New Orleans this summer to create a short film as part of the annual Samsung Mobile Fresh Films project for beginning moviemakers. The ”Big Life Drama” he helped make, “Listening to Fireflies,” can be viewed here, through Wednesday (Aug. 6).

The rest of Tyler’s story can be found here, at The Commercial Appeal’s new online entertainment page, GoMemphis.com.