If you could go back in time and talk to yourself freshman year of high school, what would you say?

Maybe a word of warning to not cut those bangs, date that guy or blow off that test?

The student filmmakers participating in the All-American High School Film Festival would say otherwise. At the red carpet event for the festival's Teen Indie Awards in Brooklyn this weekend (October 11), the inspiring young filmmakers dug deep for words of wisdom for their younger selves.

John Chigas, who worked on the film "First Monday of Summer," said, "Just go out and keep doing everything that you're doing, and don't be afraid of getting rejected."

Carol Nguyen, whose film "This Home Is Not Empty," advised, "You have to remember to take a break and live, because that's where you get your experiences from."

Festival co-founder Andrew Jenks also walked the carpet and offered up his words of wisdom for his younger self.

"If I was a freshman still in high school, I'd say don't worry about all the girls that don't want to date you, don't think you're particularly attractive," he said. "If you make good movies after 20, 21, all of a sudden nerds are very in."