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Here are a few of my favorite short films. ALL of these short films I have shot, directed, edited and color corrected myself. Right now I’m writing a feature film (almost done!!) so that I can graduate into making movies on a bigger scale. Very much looking forward to that adventure!
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I remember seeing the movie The Lost Boys and thinking, “I can do that.” I was 11. My best friend, April, and I saw the movie tons of times. We even brought her pink Esprit tape player so we could record the audio of the movie. You can hear me saying, “Pass the Hot Tamales,” then you can hear the candy sliding across the cardboard box.
My mom’s new boyfriend owned a company, so they had computers. (This was long before people had computers in their houses.) One weekend, I told him I wanted to go to his office and write. I love that I knew even then that a screenplay had to be written on a computer. I don’t remember ever considering writing it by hand. So, while other kids were playing in the pool or whatever, I went to his office and wrote my first script – in DOS. DOS is what existed before Microsoft came along and made computers pretty and easy with “Windows.”
The screenplay was about two 11 year old witches. Even back then I thought about where in my small town it could be shot – I was already thinking like an indie director. We had this great Drama department at my junior high school and we had to shoot little movies with those (then) enormous video cameras. I was even editing tape to tape back then. On VCRs. I’m not really even sure where I picked all this up, because no one in my family were writers or filmmakers.
It amazes me now that I’ve always been doing the same 3 things: movies, music and writing. Why that amazes me is because from age 13 to 33 I spent questioning whether or not I was worthy “enough” TO be doing those things. When all along, I was doing those things. I’m grateful that hindsight is 20/20 and that life is long.
I’ve made a decision to stop questioning (anything) and just create a body of work. Since I’m a writer, I felt it should be documented somehow, and a blog seemed like the perfect way to capture the process as it happens. 
