Troy University students will be participating in the fourth annual YellowHammer Film Festival on Oct. 24. The festival was founded by Troy University's professor of design Chris Stagl and co-directed by Troy alum Nathan Hobbs.
The festival’s concept was created in 2020 to showcase student work, but the festival didn’t debut until the next year. The festival has quickly grown in popularity in its short, four-year lifespan.
“Students who participate in this festival can gain the experience of seeing their work judged by industry professionals, as well as viewing their competition from other schools and universities from around the nation,” Stagl said. “Attending the festival in person is an incredible experience, especially if you have work that will be shown in the theater.”
Anyone can attend the festival, but submissions are limited to strictly students. Participants can receive one of more than 100 awards that are offered.
Zack Pappanastos, a Troy University Art and Design department graduate has won awards through the YellowHammer Film Festival, including Best Cinematography for “Day and Night” and First Time Filmmaker Award for “Paranoia” last year.
“Being a student filmmaker, sets pretty much [are just] one of our apartments with a lot of electrical equipment… nothing fancy,” Pappanastos said. “Seeing where I started in my first year, and the type of projects we’ve created in the past year, it's a good feeling to see the growth and see where you came from.”
For Troy University students, Yellowhammer is an opportunity to explore difficult themes in their work. They also get to learn the ins and outs of filmmaking.
“All of the shooting, sound scoring and editing is done by me,” said first-time festival participant Connor Evans, a senior graphic design major from Ozark, Alabama. “The bigger meaning behind my film that will be presented in YellowHammer, which is titled ‘Are You Coming Home?,’ is about a young woman’s journey to find herself after losing so much in her life.”
“My journey at TROY has been nothing but amazing, and I can’t wait to be able to tell our students a story through YellowHammer.”
Students can enter their work to the Yellowhammer Film Festival on the festival’s film freeway page, www.yellowhammerfilmfest.com. The deadline is Sept. 25. The YellowHammer film festival will be open to all attendees on Oct. 24, 2024, and it will also be available to watch on Zoom.
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