 Students from UPIKE's Film, Media & Arts program joined Wednesday for the annual UPIKE's Film Competition for Cash Prizes. Wednesday we spoke with FMA professor Andrew Reed about the premiere. Tonight we had our annual UPIKE UPIKE event which is a student film competition for all UPIKE students. They make short comedy videos, most of them parody TV shows or movies or video games and they screen them here in front of their fellow students and faculty and the ones that are most well received get cash prizes. My goal for this event is to help recruit other students on campus to the program, see the fun they can have doing these productions. That's one of the goals. The other goal for our students, for our film students, is to give them the experience of showcasing their work, getting them kind of hooked on that process, getting them to have that experience fuel further creativity, right? So you know every time they come and do this event it just makes them want to even work harder next time to make another film or even multiple films and so each event just feeds into the next one just like making a film does. Each film feeds in the next film. At Pikeville Medical Center we believe that together we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years. As always, we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center, where cancer can be defeated. Afterward we spoke with first and second place winners about their experience participating in the film competition. I don't know what to say. I'm speechless. Andrew had his second win for this contest and then this is my first win for this contest. But just getting to work with your friends on films, it's amazing and really like I appreciate everybody that got to help us with our film. This was absolutely amazing. I'm not even a film student here at Pike, so it feels like so elating that I was able to submit something and actually like place and win and do really well and everyone enjoyed it and that's all that I wanted. A big shout out to my co-producer Alex who couldn't be here. We really worked together and we made such a great film. I'm so happy that we got to show it to everyone. This was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed doing it like she said and it's just so much fun to have like everyone come together. I like having films with large cast so seeing them all come together in this film was really satisfying and rewarding and to see it place first was also a great feeling. If you're interested in joining the UPIKE FMA program you can contact Andrew Reid at Andrew Reid at UPIKE.edu. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.