Sunday, September 13, 2020

I want to defeat death.

 

This was something I had to learn," he says. Since then, he has gone on to find his own strength within himself and to be happier than he's ever been in his entire life.


The first movie he ever shot, his first feature, was the movie "Rent." He describes it as simply a chance to escape the everyday and to find freedom. "My whole movie was a freedom experiment." It was an exploration of living a life as an entrepreneur. The film didn't exist before it; he had written it to be one of his last films.


The second script was "Icarus." It was produced between 2010 and 2011 and the first scene was shot in the spring of 2015 in a rented studio in Toronto. It followed a young couple who's lives revolve around an apartment in St. Louis and their young son. In August, it premiered at the Toronto film festival in late August. It earned $22,100 for the group. The next year, it was voted the best film of 2016 in the American Society of Cinematographers competition.


While working on that second project, he's been doing some work with other actors, trying to explore these stories and to explore them more as fully as he can. It's also something he was aware of with his parents, who always told him to just work. He started with a camera. Now he's in his studio and shooting with the help of other filmmakers he comes up with, including Jules Hétoua (the character he plays in "It"), Sean O'Brien, and David Macnab.


This isn't just about trying to make any money in Hollywood, he says. It's about trying to create something where he believes it is his calling to live. In the beginning, he has to prove to himself that he can do it, and then try and create something with his wife that helps him reach those goals, too. His first film came out in the aftermath of something crazy that happened to someone else, like a divorce. He's spent the last eight years working on some scripts that he feels in his mind work for him creatively.


But "Rent" and "The Lost Weekend" are the main ones. The latter two are about two boys in this young couple who decide to move into an apartment full of abandoned apartment buildings that were once run by kids and other tenants. It's been an exploration about the lives of children who are constantly abandoned, who find solace in movies and

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