welcome home!

All my life, I have loved movies. Mulan. Harry Potter. Indiana Jones. About Time. I found my solace in them whenever life became difficult. I love fictional stories because I love the creation of diegetic worlds with laws and environments that can be vastly different from the world just outside the edges of our screens. It’s fascinating to watch as a completely unique or different world connects with all the films and stories that came before it as universal truths, heroes journeys, or common themes unfold through the story’s characters and their growth. We the audience are able to understand and connect with the stories through the main characters or the protagonist. Mulan, Harry, Indy, and Tim. Ordinary characters that are thrown into extraordinary circumstances. However, the thing that made them, in particular, my role models wasn’t their extraordinary surroundings or circumstances, it was their character. They were people who dared. Dared to question authority. Dared to break the rules. Dared to care. Dared to fail. Dared to try again. Mulan joined the army, Harry broke the rules, Indiana protected history, and Tim found love and life.

I want to be the protagonist of my own story, because what is life if not a story written in the present time. I dare to dream of a career and life where I can share stories that have touched me and will touch others like me; stories that can give someone an escape from their own troubles if only for an hour and a half. I want to create films like Mulan for the little girls like me, that show strong women questioning their place in the world and fighting to change it through confidence and determination. I want to create films like Harry Potter that show young men that emotions are for all humans and that love is a strength. I want to help get important messages of morals and love across to someone who needs them. I want to entertain people because entertainment at its core is joy. I want to figure out what qualities are at the heart of a character and make them shine by assembling a team of people who have put their own hearts into stories, and can make the characters and their growth come to life through pixels of light on a screen. I want to sit in a room with those people and brainstorm what way a story should unfold and bounce ideas around without the fear of imperfection or the fear of failure to stop creativity from occurring.