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Getting Through

I made this film because I have just started high school and wanted to make a short montage about a day of a high school student. The film only shows the main character at home getting ready for school, and doing homework.

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Strum

"Strum" is a short film about a student who suffers from extreme isolation and depression. His school work is overwhelming him, he has no friends, and his teachers hate him. In a culmination of stress and anxiety, he throws his chrome book out of the window, and resorts to music to help calm him down.

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The Woods

This film was an attempt to re-create the horror genre. My team and I wanted to scare the audience in a short time period, and we were inspired by the short film "Lights Out".

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Inequity of Expression

This personal essay film was created as an expression of my journey to self understanding as a high schooler. I’ve been told many times throughout life to be careful of my words, to think before speaking.

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An Occurrence at Owl Airport

Based off the classic short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, this modern adaptation brings a new level of interest to the aging story.

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Where I’m From

"Where I'm From" is a special one for me. I created this short film with the intent of it being nostalgic and youthful, as well as completely authentic to my childhood experience. Growing up in Petaluma, California, I filmed at several locations that meant something to me. Additionally, everything that I touched on in the narration has some significance to me.

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Balance

This film is about a former dancer reflects on their childhood and how their actions have changed them while testing how much change they can handle.

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the lingering question at a masquerade

It was a cool experience because it happened after I got inspiration from a film I was watching at my local theatre, so me and my sibling left early to go make this movie at like 8PM.

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Energy of New York

I made this while in New York and it represents to me what New York is. Whether it is the creativity, the mood and passion there, the amazing people, or the energy in the city, it shows my experience and love for the city.

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No Solicitors

This piece was created for my IB HL film class. The prompt was "stranger at the door". I wrote, directed, and edited this short film. I wanted to explore character foils in this project to create as much contrast between the two characters.

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Dad vs. Boyfriend

This is a filmmaking project that I made with two friends in my filmmaking class at school. We wanted to make a goofy film using the open space behind my house and we ended up with this. We made a story board which had a longer chase scene and more dialogue.

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3w4

3w4 was inspired by my own personal experience with internalized misogyny, transphobia, and dissociation. It represents how it feels to be both detached and incredibly aware of your thoughts and body.

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Don’t Hang Up

This comedic drama depicts an experience that we all have had at one time or another.

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Will

For making a short film there's a brainstorming process where I usually doodle and make word webs for my idea. Then storyboarding. Then script writing, but for this one there wasn't any dialogue so this particular short film does not have a script.

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(in)visible string

This story is centered around a main character who believes her soulmate is dangerous (although this is never truly discovered). I wanted to leave the plot open to interpretation, and so not much is explained in the video.

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Thursday Nights

When I was 11 years old, I was told a story that would someday help me through one of the most challenging times of my life, nearly a decade later. For a class project, my teacher instructed me to make a poster about the “hero’s journey”. I had to find someone in my family with a unique story, then create a poster explaining each step of their heroic journey. Naturally, I chose to do my project on Nana, my grandmother.

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Sociology

This experimental film is my interpretation of the poem “Sociology,” by James Galvin (shown below). The music is Ron Drotos’s cover of “Revolution 9” on piano, used with permission.

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This Crime is Organized

This is an original song and music video I made last year for my social studies class. I wrote, produced, filmed and edited the entire thing. The song is satire about the mafia. Enjoy!

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