TROY’s students earned seven awards including The YellowHammer Award for “Unseen” by Howard Purvee, a senior from Hartford, Alabama.
) - Troy University design students recently competed against top film schools from across the country in the second annual YellowHammer Film Festival held both virtually and in the Trojan Center Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 17.
Other students who had films screened and won awards include Nathan Hobbs, Cole Patterson, Reanna Thompson and David Saner. Hobbs also won Best Music Video for “Killer Queen,” made with the help of Purvee, and Best Commercial Series Award for “Dr. Pepper,” which was made with Thompson and Zack Pappanastos.
Thompson, a junior from Southport, Florida, added, “I was very emotional and brought to tears when I got to watch my work screen for all the filmmakers and then ultimately hear my name get called with Nathan’s for Best Commercial Series.” The festival received nearly 250 entries in just its second year from dozens of high schools and colleges across the country, TROY “This more than doubles the submissions from last year,” he said. “Along with all of the films, we were able to expand our footprint from being solely an online festival to also providing the filmmakers, family and friends a place to come watch the entire days’ events in the Trojan Center Theater.
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