BPT Student Garin Hyde Wins Film Festival Award

Garin Hyde, Gaston College filmmaker

Garin Hyde, a Broadcasting and Production Technology major at Gaston College was awarded top prize in the Student Film category of the Lumbee River Independent Film Festival in Pembroke, NC.  Held  on April 11, under the auspices of the University of North Carolina Pembroke, this was the festival’s premier year.  

Hyde’s film, “Lost in Transition,” is a comic spoof on horror films that tells the story of a pair of ghosts who have haunted the broadcasting program’s studios for decades.  A brave student, working at night, discovers and befriends the ghosts, and agrees to help break the curse that keeps them bound to the building.   

Poster for Hyde's film, also designed by him

The cast and crew were all Gaston College students.  Hyde was the director, cinematographer and producer of the 10-minute film which was a project of the advanced video class led by instructor Kate Carmody.

According to Elizabeth Menzel, the festival coordinator, “Lost in Transition” was the audience favorite and earned many laughs for the main film as well as a “blooper reel” attached to the end. 

Hyde graduates from the BPT program this May, and plans to continue his award-winning work in both video and still photography in the Charlotte region with his own production company, Vocal Distortion Films.