PROVO — A BYU short film about a driving test gone wrong won big, earning BYU clout as the only American university to win an animation award at the Student Academy Awards in London earlier this month.
“Student Accomplice” is about a nervous teenage girl taking her driving test when a bank robber decides to use her as his getaway driver. Meanwhile, her “by-the-book” driving instructor continues to conduct the test while involved in a high-speed police chase, director Spencer Baird said.
“We had lots of opportunities to be creative with ‘Student Accomplice,’ which was fun for us,” Baird said in a news release. “There’s a lot of hilarity and complexity layered in. It’s fast-paced in a very delightful way.”…