Filmmaker Statement

June Bug is a film about final goodbyes of the hardest kind. Saying goodbye to your faculties, to your functioning body, is a part of aging that seems impossible to reconcile. Imagine knowing you are rapidly going blind… how do you deal with that news? What are the things that concern you? No person can escape the fact that they will someday inevitably fall apart. I wanted to make a film that touched on this theme as it’s so universal and universally ignored. We don’t want to face it. It’s a semi-personal theme and not surprisingly, a lot of the people who were part of this film had their own personal connection to the story. Though it handles a heavy subject, I don’t think it’s a heavy film. I hope people feel the levity sewn into it because it’s that same levity that’s required to face the fact of aging; I don’t see any other way to do it.