Filmmaker Statement

Making Far Away was a deeply personal experience based in my own reality. The script came together while I was in the midst of a personal tragedy wherein I found myself extremely vulnerable and dependent on the love of my own friends—particularly Alyssa Limperis, with whom I wrote the script and Andrew Daugherty, the director of photography. Around this same time, Alyssa had an experience where she ended up calling the suicide hotline and later joked with me about how she was drawn out of it by the operator immediately putting her on a long hold. Our friendship and laughter have been the two trademarks of us escaping hard times and we wanted to make a short that encompassed these two things: our deep love for each other and our ability to laugh in the face of darkness.