For the third annual Spud Fest Film Festival the Idaho Film and Television Institute tried something different.

This year the Spud Fest Film Festival travelled over the space of three days to three different locations in southeastern Idaho. Thursday the festival was in Rexburg, Friday it went to Pocatello and Saturday it was in Idaho Falls.

The films shown in the film festival came from the winners of the Kiawanis Film Festival, the Visual Media Guild Film Festival, from BYU-Idaho students and some national entries such as Pirates of the Great Salt Lake and Blood Tea and Red String.

“Our goal of the film festival was to encourage and support local film makers and bring awareness about the film industry,” said Teresa Nelson, the producer of the Spud Fest Film Festival.

The national films that were shown at the festival had stories behind them. Blood Tea and Red String by Christiane Cegavske was a stop-motion feature film using characters that she had made herself. The film, which took her 12 years to make, was shown at a film festival in Budapest.

Kendall Nelson, a still photographer from Sun Valley, Idaho, decided to do her film, a documentary called Gathering Remnants after photographing cowboys for a few years.

“As I got to know about these men’s lives I realized that there was more of a story here to tell,” Kendall said.

Scott Winn, a freshman from Olympia Wash., won Best Short Film at Spud Fest.