Corrine McClure is only 14-years-old and she’s already had her 15 minutes of fame.

Well, 10 minutes, at least.

McClure, an Arlington High School student, spent her summer helping to make a movie as part of the Samsung Mobile Fresh Films program.

McClure was one of 99 finalists, out of thousands of applicants nationwide, selected to take part in the filmmaking program for 14- to 19-year-olds.

“I found out about it a year ago, but I was too young to apply,” McClure said.

Applicants were asked, but not required, to submit story ideas and essays on why they wanted to participate, except that McClure, who submitted both, found out that applicants who declined to submit these “optionals” were not even considered for entry into the program.

From there, the 99 teens were divided up into nine film crews in nine cities, with McClure heading off to Portland with 10 other teens. Like the other teams, they only had seven days to cast, storyboard, produce, shoot and edit a 10-minute film.

McClure’s team chose the “action hero” genre — the other two genres were “uncommon comedy” and “big life drama” — auditioning local actors in the first day, and spending the next two days storyboarding scenes and receiving technical training.

“It was boot camp for filmmaking,” McClure said. “We worked long days. There wasn’t a lot of goofing around, but we had a lot of fun.”

The most memorable aspect of McClure’s filmmaking experience was visiting a local National Guard base and exploring the Black Hawk helicopter that would be used in her team’s 12-hour “shoot day” on Mt. Hood, to film a forest rescue sequence.

“That is something I don’t think anyone on my team, me included, will ever forget,” McClure said.

After they’d wrapped up their editing and soundtrack, McClure’s team competed online with the two other “action hero” teams in August, soliciting votes through their Web site and via text messages. While the Portland team won for best “action hero” movie, they were beaten out by Dallas’ “big life drama” movie for best overall film.

McClure might not have gotten to visit the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles this year, like the Dallas team did, but she’s already planning on applying for next year’s contest.

“The most important part of it is learning to work with a group of strangers as a team,” McClure said.