WSU Vancouver digital technology and culture student Erin Wilkinson won the 2009 Gold Coyote Award at the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Fest, held in May at Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
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."
Trotter plots escape from his "captors" in Trotter Von Wilkinson.
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.
Wilkinson is a 27-year-old senior at WSU Vancouver in the digital technology and culture program. She produced the film in Erik Fauske's video production course in the 2008 summer session.
The DTC program at WSU 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 originated the DTC degree, which is now offered in Pullman and the Tri-Cities.
The Chronicle, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University