For 24-year-old filmmaker Ingrid Pfau, UAB was a place of firsts. It was the place where the Birmingham native first became a filmmaker and where she was first diagnosed with epilepsy.

The 2011 UAB alum who majored in environmental science filmmaking told her story of living with the neurological disorder in a five-minute film that was recently named runner-up at The Neuro Film Festival in San Diego presented by the American Brain Foundation.