Now to young adults channeling their inner Steven Spielberg.

This marks 30 years that student filmmakers at Western Kentucky University have showcase their work on the silver screen.

Our Laura Rogers takes us to WKU to learn more about the film program and its senior thesis.

That is part of tonight's Arts and Culture segment we call tapestry.

The past.

Where at least I've always been a storyteller.

Christian Tyler Colvin as a WKU senior from Campbellsville.

I've always been a visual person, and film is visual storytelling, so it just made sense that sensical decision was to study film at Ku.

Navigating some challenges along the way.

Road bumps, scheduling conflicts, all of those things are constants when you're trying to make a movie.

He's making that movie to graduate in May with the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Film Production.

I developed the premise turn it into a story and produce it, cast it, write it, direct it.

It was a 13 month endeavor in collaboration with his classmates like Katherine Thompson of Southern Illinois.

It's hard work, but it's rewarding.

Hello, Karen.

The University provides the tools for sound, cameras, lighting, and transportation.

Pullman and Thompson also received a faculty Undergraduate Student Engagement, or fuze grant to help fund their film.

I had to have an idea to get the grant, and I hadn't even finished my junior film when I came up with the idea.

It was literally just a premise.

That premise would eventually become a 12 minute film called The Testimony of Sir Garrett.

The story is about a knight who is a little naive and struggling with a lot of thematic concepts when it comes to like fantasy and medieval storytelling.

We also knew that we had these big characters, such as like Thor and Odin.

It's one of more than 50 student films to be screened this weekend at the White Squirrel Film Festival.

There's definitely an energy in the room.

It's kind of a celebration of all of the work that we've done for the past year.

Thompson served as the production designer, working on elements like costuming and set design.

Getting to see the stuff that you make come to life, and the stuff that you've been working so hard on, just seeing it on the big screen and seeing how other people react to it.

It's a really good feeling.

Introduced in the fall of 2020.

WKU is the first university in Kentucky to offer a BFA in Film Production and immersive major, giving students industry experience.

Film production is treated more like a trade, almost like so much like learning, like be an electrician or something.

It's hours based and learning a certain amount of practicum courses rather than written tests, from developing a script to casting actors and meeting deadlines.

That all culminates in this weekend's film festival, putting students creativity and talent on full display.

You can hear everybody around you in all of their just little sounds and little like gasps and little laughs.

It's really exciting and it really kind of refills your creative like your creative bucket, if you will.

It's a celebration to watch films and see what your classmates are doing, and to congratulate them and just see what's coming out of the program.

The program is producing some impressive talent.

Both Colvin and Thompson want to use their education to continue filmmaking, using the festival as inspiration.

I can do this bigger and I can do this, but better.

And it inspires you to really, like, push yourself.

There's people who sit around campfires and tell stories, and that's been a thing.

And storytelling is one of the oldest art forms.

I'm going to continue that thing.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers for it.

Thank you, Laura and go tops.

Senior films will be screening this Saturday evening at the Capitol.

That's a theater in Bowling Green.