Gavin Dewey in “Drunk History”
(Tokyo, Japan & Lansing, IA – May 31, 2023)
Charged with fostering connections between the Asian and international markets, the Tokyo Lift-Off film festival has selected Drunk History for screening in a program offering a mixture of fresh talent and festival veterans from all genres.
Additionally, judges of the Star City Film Festival in Lansing, Iowa have awarded the film an Honorable Mention.
Drunk History features Good Samaritan Maggie (Sarina Donatelli) helping tipsy Sam (Gavin Dewy) safely back to his apartment. The history of their messy relationship surfaces as she tries to sober him up.
Director Jaylin Wyatt shifted his experience in the performance arts of theater and music to seek training in film. “I can’t say one is better than the other,” said Wyatt, “however a filmmaker’s ability to get the audience involved in their story is an unmatched thrill.”
Collaborating with student filmmakers Jared Bupp, Bing-en Chen, Ryan Hess, Jacob Innes, Reginald Taylor, and Mark Wilton, director Wyatt and Producer Luke Costello completed the film in partial fulfillment of requirements for Professor Brian Fuller’s Narrative Filmmaking course. The class is a demanding capstone experience requiring students to call on skills acquired in all other levels of program instruction. Class content centers on the creation of short-form fiction. Drunk History joins I Hate Crimes, Ordnung, and Seventeen, in a list of the course’s student-produced films which have gone on to win festival accolades.