Independence Hall
Filmmaker etc.
Independence Hall
Filmmaker etc.
Filmmaker etc.
Filmmaker etc.
I started my storytelling journey in kindergarten as the title character in the play the Elephant’s Child. Life and I agreed to a journey through some magic story fairy dust collecting - from living in Vienna, Austria for 7 years to being a young mom in my 20s to a master in Media and Cultural studies, a law degree, being sworn in to practice by Justice Ginsberg in her chambers, to a non-profit working on social justice issues focusing on wrongful convictions, to being an alum of the number one film school in the world - The American Film Institute. The journey continues . . . for me film is a storytelling medium that allows us to empathize with one another, it shows a mirror to our humanity and gives us an opportunity to view ourselves from enough distance to avoid defensiveness around things that could be changed for the better and to give us space to see and celebrate the triumphs of what it means to be human.
On a journey towards deepening inner knowing and while fasting for a number of days during a cleanse, Independence met with a shamanic healer who made an off handed comment, something like " . . . otherwise we are just 21 grams of light." Upon making a note in her phone and asking the great google oracle after the session, Independence learned about an experiment where Duncan MacDougall tried to measure the weight of a human soul. Something about the idea of trying to quantify something so ephemeral felt akin to making a film - trying to immortalize a feeling. Art and film can never truly be static or quantified because they change depending on the viewer and which experiences the viewer brings with them to the piece. And so we chase the impossible, achieving more on the journey than we ever could arriving at the destination.
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