Hollywood has its Oscars, the music industry has the Grammys and on Saturday afternoon Napa’s CyberMill Technology Center held its own prestigious awards ceremony — the Fifth Annual MILLies.

A red carpet welcomed a crowd of anxious MILLie nominees, all local teens who use CyberMill’s computers and staff know-how to learn multimedia skills, as friends and family members strolled through CyberMill’s facility on Claremont Way, sipping lemonade, gazing at art and bidding on silent auction items.

The MILLies are awards given to CyberMill students who create projects in the fields of gamemaking, photography, digital storytelling, graphic art and Web site design.

“We really wanted the community to see the incredible work that the kids were doing,” CyberMill Executive Director Cynthia Dempsey said. “The MILLies are about showcasing student work.”

MILLies’ judges culled the winners from a list of 125 contestants who submitted 612 entries. Some students wove the theme “From Local Farm to Local Table” into their projects, highlighting the contributions that farmers make to the valley’s food supply. Nominees had about four months to prepare their projects, Dempsey said.

Vintage High School freshman Hannah Huntsman, 14, created two videos for the digital storytelling category, including “Trapped in the Sims,” showcasing her love of the video game.

Her film opens at 2:30 in the morning with two teens sitting in front of the computer playing the Sims, which allows players to take control of virtual people and choose what they wear, who they hang out with and what they do for fun. Next thing you know it’s 9:30 p.m. and one of the players wants to get some rest. He goes to sleep and a dream sequence begins; he is now part of the game that he’s been playing for hours on end.

Hannah spliced footage of the actual game into her movie and created dialogue tinged with humor.

The film won a Huntsman a MILLie, as did another film she produced about the abundance of fruits and vegetables available at the farmers market at Copia.

“I didn’t expect to win, it feels good actually,” she said.

Huntsman said she’s been going to CyberMill since she was in the third grade and plans to learn more about video production at CyberMill while creating a bevy of Sims videos.

Before coming to CyberMill about three years ago, the only thing that 11-year-old Terry DuBois knew about video games came from working his home-console gaming system. Now DuBois has acquired strong skills making video games. He also won a MILLie Saturday, in the gamemaking category.

“I was very excited, I felt really good,” he said.

DuBois game, “Spaceship,” challenges players to dodge aliens and other hazards; the game took DuBois two weeks to make, he said.

Since 1999, CyberMill has taught dozens of students the ins and outs of sophisticated software applications such as Adobe Premier and Google Page Creator.

CyberMill works with Napa students ages 9-14, Dempsey said. In addition to teaching students how to navigate complex software, CyberMill staff also teaches students digital photography and computer basics such as operating in a Windows environment, using Microsoft Office and keyboarding

On Friday evening, the group will host a MILLies afterparty and fundraiser at the Historic Napa Mill, 500 Main St. For more information visit www.cybermill.org.