VANCOUVER, Wash. Washington State University Vancouver Digital Technology and Culture student Erin Wilkinson won the 2009 Gold Coyote Award at the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Fest, held at Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, Ore.
On the final night of the festival, the $1,000 Gold Coyote prize is awarded by the audience to the winner in the best new short category. Entries can be film or video, with running times of five minutes or less. Wilkinson’s film, “Trotter Von Wilkinson,” is a short satire that the festival jury called a “three-minute portrait of dignified self-delusion, starring her dog.”
Bill Crawford, director of the Gold Coyote contest, presented Wilkinson with the award. Wilkinson’s winning entry was chosen by a packed house of cineastes, some of whom also had films in the competition.
To view the film go to,
https://www.mufilmfest.com/archives/category/gold-coyote.
Wilkinson, 27, is a senior at WSU Vancouver in the Digital Technology and Culture program. She owns and operates Serenity Films, her own freelance filmography business. She produced the film in Erik Fauske’s, “Topics in Digital Technology and Culture” video production course in the 2008 summer session.
The DTC Program at Washington State University Vancouver integrates critical thinking, creativity and computing skills with course work in the arts, humanities and social sciences to offer a broad-based, interdisciplinary degree that prepares students for a culturally diverse, technologically complex 21st century. WSU Vancouver created the DTC degree, which is now offered in Pullman and Tri Cities.
WSU Vancouver is celebrating 20 years of bringing quality education, research and service to the citizens of southwest Washington. WSU Vancouver is located at 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., east of the 134th Street exit from either I-5 or I-205, or via C-Tran bus service. We offer 16 bachelor’s degrees, 10 master’s degrees, one doctorate degree and more than 36 fields of study. Visit us on the Web at www.vancouver.wsu.edu.
