WWU students win awards at Our New Gold International Digital Storytelling Festival

June 21, 2023

Screenshot from "The Missing Month" by WWU student Hadley VanLandingham, showing in black and white a hand-drawn calendar with dates being crossed out.

Screenshot from "The Missing Month" video by WWU student Hadley VanLandingham

Two WWU Spanish majors, Hadley VanLandingham and Ethan Nishi, have been selected as winners of the Our New Gold International Digital Storytelling Festival, a digital art competition for creative adaptations of early modern Spanish texts.

Screenshot from the video "The Match of the Millennia" by WWU student Ethan Nishi

Screenshot of the video "The Match of the Millennia" by WWU student Ethan Nishi

Two other projects from WWU Spanish majors were also selected for special mention: "Humors Mixologist Ep. 2: La Flor del Belflor," by Kendra Sutton, Aileen García, and Chase Jackson; and "Internal conflicts" by Madison Gard.

Additionally, the project "The Student Loses His Shadow" by WWU student John Carroll was selected as a finalist.

Nishi's project was titled "The Match of the Millennia," and is a video game adaption of act three of Tirso de Molina's "Don Gil de las calzas verdes."

VanLandingham's project, "The Missing Month," is about a chunk of missing time in the narrative between the first and seconds acts of "La Dama Boba," written by Lope de Vega.

Find out more information about those two projects, as well as the special mentions and finalist projects, at the contest website at ournewgold.org/2023-festival/2023-entries.