Artist Statement

Artist Statement

I am interested in experimental and nontraditional filmmaking but also narrative filmmaking as well. Most of my favorite films are foreign and/or independent. I love screenwriting, production, editing, painting on film, and participating in and programming film festivals. I am very interested in sociology and issues of class, race, age, and especially gender. I am primarily interested in making films that create social awareness through portraits of people, and human interaction in general within society.I am very interested to see all the many ways people live and are, and love to see new perspectives even if I don’t personally agree with them. I like all types of Documentaries, I wouldn’t say I favor one kind over the other; it just varies film by film. This semester I am doing two independent studies: I am making an experimental film, and in the other, Reel Girls, we will teach selected middle school girls filmmaking. I am also taking intro to Editing, and writing about film. Other film classes I’ve taken include: FST 201, 203, 205, 227, 292, 318, 395, 398, and 491. As for the future, I am going to graduate school to prolong entering the “real world” but what I really want is to be an independent filmmaker working on projects I believe in.