Kentucky Wesleyan College said assistant professor Josh Miller won Best of Show and Best Alabama Film at the 21st annual Rocket City Short Film Festival in Huntsville, Alabama, on Oct. 25.
The college said Miller wrote and directed “Eternal,” an allegorical short about a grieving young man who enters a purgatory world in search of death and the waters of oblivion. The film screened with 90 other selections at the three-day festival, which featured filmmaker panels and Q&As, workshops, screenplay table reads and other events, according to the announcement.
According to Kentucky Wesleyan, “Eternal” screened earlier this year at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham and is scheduled to screen at the St. Louis International Film Festival in November. The college said Miller teaches film production, cinematography and film history, with students gaining filmmaking experience through classes and projects at the Kentucky Soundstage.
Kentucky Wesleyan said it plans to launch a Film and Media major in fall 2027 as part of the Keith and Vicki Sharber Communications Program. For information about the college’s Communication Arts program, the announcement directs readers to kwc.edu/program/communication-arts or Dr. Andrew Bolin at andrew.bolin@kwc.edu.
