This is a film I created as part of my MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. During the Fall semester in 2022 I took a film concentration and worked under the brilliant filmmaker Nina Davenport.
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It was the end of 2019 and Marcia Colaundria packed up her car in the driveway of her childhood home in Vero Beach to move back to Orlando, even though she had nowhere to live. But her depression had gotten so bad that she knew she needed a change of scenery; living in her car seemed like a fine trade off. So after too many late nights spent crying she finally threw all of her clothes into her trunk and drove to Orlando, hoping to find a way to take her career in professional photography to the next level, to fulfill the dream that sparked in high school, and step out in faith.
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How digital painter Nikkolas Smith turns grief into art and activism. I’ll never forget driving by the teddy bear. It was two miles from where I lived. Where Trayvon Martin was last alive, walking with Skittles from the Sanford, FL 7-11 I got that bottle of water from that one time. There were piles of […]
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Disney writer and director John Musker on writing with a collaborator, which feedback to take and which to ignore, and how to keep going when you’re stuck. I almost expect the bunny to start talking to me. I stare as it hops silently into the greenery outside the home of John Musker, the man who brought to life a mouse detective, a blue genie, a frog prince, an ocean voyager, and a little mermaid. I’ve been listening to John’s words since I was three-years old. I walk past the hiding bunny to John’s door, remembering the first time his art affected my life.
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Disney artist Antonio Pelayo on the importance of practice and how to make a living as an artist. It was one of those Instagram posts that make you scroll back up and stare. It was more real than real. And it wasn’t done with a camera. But with a pencil.
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