Fellow viewers! I am excited to announce that my most recent film project is being screened tomorrow, yes, tomorrow! It is a short film that describes teenager’s take on love, what it is, why it’s here, how it’s interpreted, and the process. The screening begins at 6:00 pm at the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side. (1109 5th Ave at 92nd street) Come if you can and help support my dreams doing this as a profession.
Filmmaker Bio:
After watching a Christmas commercial about the new release of a kid’s toy, for the next month, my mother never had to ask me to do my chores or clean my room, my sister and I never got into an argument, and all my homework was finished on time. The commercial displayed a girly commercial about the size of two fists put together and made out of pink sparkly plastic. At eight years old, after Santa blessed me with this Barbie accessory, I fell in love with the art of filmmaking.
Years later I asked for a real digital camcorder. As time passed, my desires morphed into something deeper. I not only enjoyed using the camera, but got interested the art of editing what has been recorded, which, now that I am older, I know is called cinematography.
Fortunately, my school helps me to build on my aspirations of landing a vocation that has something to do with cinematography. It offers modules every semester that require exit projects where film is always an option. As a freshman I was able to create a Public Service Announcement with my group, in which we shed light on issues in Zimbabwe. My sophomore year, I created with my group a documentary that focused on individual’s personal experiences on the day of September 11th, 2001. This year, my junior year, I recently finished a project where I read a novel, then interpreted it into a trailer. Link here. Currently I am in a Module called “Sixteen”. My class and I are in the process of creating a documentary that talks about what it is like to be sixteen around the world.
I now spend my Wednesdays interning at Aubin Pictures, witnessing and blogging about the different fields that film can touch. This experience is essential for me to know what I want to be when I grow up because it teaches me how to critically and objectively write about different films, articles and announcements. I feel like this site has helped me to realize that all types of films require bucket loads of writing, whether it be a screenplay, interpreting a movie into a novel, blogging about themes that relate to a film, or spreading the word about a certain film.
