A filmmaker who writes and acts in short films told students on Wednesday to never give up on their dreams.

Wyatt Unger, who co-founded SHRUG Productions, a company that makes short films, said to students, “The only difference between me and anybody else is that I never stopped. They did.”

“It’s really easy to start something. … it’s really hard to finish,” Unger added.

After being disappointed in the scripts of the films he was acting in, Unger said he met other creatives who felt similarly, so he started SHRUG Productions.

“This is a team sport. … It requires you to collaborate,” Unger said about working with other actors. “That’s the beauty in film … It’s not yours, it’s ours.”

Unger shared some short films, including “The Remnant,” an emotional comedy about a talking sandwich and a man stranded in the woods, and “Claus and Effect,” in which Santa acts as a therapist to an adult struggling with family issues.

 “I liked seeing the films,” Nicole Schroeder, a third-year environmental science and media production student, said. “It was good, especially for film students, to see a professional with experience.”

Mary Harwood, a second-year creative writing student, said Unger’s message was “inspiring.”

“I love the questions [people were asking] and [Unger’s] way of responding to them,” Harwood said. “It gave me new ideas.”

“I think having somebody who actually, like, made the movie and can talk about the production of the script and the production of the movie at the same time is just really enlightening, and useful for the students,” creative writing professor Garrett Brown, who organized the event, said.

The next Writers Reading presentation will be on Nov. 19.