Five teams of high school students from the city are competing in a nationwide competition to create a film about the dangers of cyberbulling. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.

Some high school students crammed into an apartment in Williamsburg Wednesday, shooting an eight-minute movie about cyberbulling. 

More than two dozen other groups of high school students are working across the city this week on their own short films. It's the first national student film competition focused on cyberbulling, and the winning movie will be shown in city public schools.

The goal is simple and straightforward. 

"To tell people about the effects cyberbulling can have on someone's life, and the long-lasting scars or, really, the deadly consequences, really, in some cases," said Jane Clementi of The Tyler Clementi Foundation.

Clementi's son Tyler killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge six years ago, after his college roommate used a webcam and social media to broadcast Tyler having a sexual encounter with another man. 

"It's not just kids being kids or a rite of passage. This is something that needs to be addressed. This is a public health threat," Jane Clementi said.

The Tyler Clementi Foundation is partnering with the All-American Film Festival, AT&T and the de Blasio administration to host the competition. 

"There's no question that technology has enhanced our lives in so many ways, but of course, there are a few negative effects of technology, and as a global technology company, we feel it's important to ensure they were educating the public about those dangers," said AT&T New York President Marissa Shorenstein.

Five of the 25 teams competing are from New York City. The group in Williamsburg is from Mythic Bridge, a filmmaking workshop serving at-risk kids.  

"This is a serious issue. It could be for teenagers, for adults. Anybody can be cyberbullied," said student Nicole Barbot.

"Even though they think, 'It's nothing. I can call these people names. They'll just, it's fine, they are used to it.' But sometimes on the Internet can be harsher than reality," said student Emiliano Rallo.

Jane Clementi hopes films made by teenagers will speak to teenagers, encouraging the bullied to seek help and potential bullies to reconsider.