Students from Kapolei, Roosevelt and Kaimuki high schools are teaming up with the city to send a powerful message about teenage drinking and driving.

Thirty students from the three schools planned, acted in and filmed a video titled "Shattered Dreams Hawai'i" that will be shown this weekend on 'Olelo Community Television.

The project is the second part of the city's "Be Smart, Don't Start" campaign to combat underage drinking, Mayor Mufi Hannemann said at a news conference yesterday.

A teenager is killed or seriously injured in an alcohol-related collision every 15 minutes in the United States. Last year, the city distributed pamphlets about the issue to students taking tests for licenses or permits.

This summer, the student producers hope to send an even stronger message using the video. It includes scenes of a mock car crash — complete with fake blood, body bags and a police arrest — and a "funeral" at Borthwick Mortuary in which Traci Ann Taniguchi, a senior at Kaimuki, plays herself as one of three students killed by a drunken driver.

As classmates line up to pay their respects at the funeral, a photo montage of the victims flashes across the screen, a sobering reminder of the lives destroyed by drinking and driving.

Taniguchi got the idea of creating a visual message instead of just a flier after returning from a National Student Safety Program conference in Oklahoma last summer.

"Every school should see this presentation because every school has this problem," she said. "I know it won't affect everybody, but as long as it has touched one person in the crowd, I'm happy."

The city will also show the video at satellite city halls, motor vehicle licensing stations and at events such as Sunset on the Beach, Hannemann said.