Students participate in BYU-I Film Festival

Students visited the Oscar A. Kirkham Auditorium this week during the BYU-Idaho student Film Festival. The film categories were mockumentary, thriller, drama, action, and comedy, all produced by stude

 

BYU-Idaho held its own version of the Oscars for students who had produced winning movies during this semester’s film festival. 

The movie categories were comedy, mockumentary, thriller, drama and action.  About 200 people attended the event, which was held in the Oscar A. Kirkham building. 

 Some of the movies produced were “Anything But Normal,” “Rexburg Ranger,” “Robot Hunting,” “Jacob Still” and “Suspicion.”

In the movie “Jacob Still,” the main character wakes up with no knowledge of who he is. All he has in his pocket is a piece of paper telling him his name. 

He quickly realizes that although he knows almost next to nothing about his identity, he has some unusual talents.  He can read a book just by touching it, and begins going to public libraries and touching the books. Jacob met a cute girl in the library who introduces her boyfriend to him. Upon a handshake, Jacob learns of her boyfriend's devious plot to kidnap her. 

Jacob quickly reads a self-defense book by touching it, and then goes on to rescue “library girl.”

 Tucker Debevec was the producer of the movie “Anything But Normal,” the award-winning drama. The film portrays the romantic challenges of  a young man who has a hard time finding a girl. 

The first girl he goes out with likes the waiter, the second girl has OCD, and, to his horror, on his third date he discovers the girl has the legs of a man. He finally realizes he just has to be himself and take things easy.

David Epps, a junior studying communication, won the Committee Choice Award for his movie on meditation. He said he chose to make the film because he loves to meditate. 

“Meditation is one the most under-utilized doctrines practiced in the Church,” Epps said.

Epps hopes to encourage young people to meditate. He said if people get involved in meditation, they could reduce their chances of depression and suicide.

Jacob Anderson, a sophomore majoring in university studies, liked “Rexburg Ranger.”

“It was good, and I enjoyed all the different movies made by fellow students,” Anderson said. 

Hannah Hayes, a junior studying English, liked the thriller movie entitled “Suspicion.”

“I will come again next semester,” Hayes said. “I see some of these guys making it to Hollywood.”

 

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