Student film talent shined bright on April 9 at the annual Spartan film festival.

Hosted by University Activities Board, student work was submitted and broadcasted to an audience at Wells Hall.

Luke Dzwonkowski, political theory and constitutional democracy senior and films director for UAB, runs the films committee and helped to decide the winners of the categories, except the Fan Favorite Award.

Dzwonkowski said every submission was accepted. Each submission ranged between two to 15 minutes, with all 42 submissions equalling up to about four and a half hours.

Film freshman RJ Everett, who submitted “Bishop Street,” said he was excited to be a part of the event.

“I just hope they enjoy it; I hope I don’t get laughed out of the place,” Everett said. “I would like to win, but that’s not what it’s about it, it’s about having fun and making films.”

Media and information junior Elise Conklin, who submitted “I Am Tyler Mathewson,” said her piece was an experimental documentary for a directing class. She used a friend who likes to dance as the subject.

“I asked him if I could interview him and then a week later, cut his monologue together and then he choreographed a dance to it,” Conklin said.

Conklin, whose group the Roial Players won best horror last year, said she enjoyed the range of submissions at the festival .

“It was really cool to see the range because they were some that you can see like, ‘Oh yeah, we just kind of made this for fun,’ and there were some where you could kind of tell that they had some professional aspirations,” Conklin said.

Conklin also won for best music video in last year’s festival.

The winners for this year’s festival were as follows:

Best horror: “A Night Out” by Roial Players, accepted by Elise Conklin, media and information junior.

Best documentary: “Jadun’s Journey” by Scott Wasserman, media and information senior.

Best comedy/musical: ''The God Particle'' by Will Miller, electrical engineer senior.

Best drama: "See You Then" by Madeleine Wu, 

Fan favorite: “Pizza Mouth” by Bailey Davis, theatre freshman.