Filmmaker Statement

When I was younger, like most teenagers, I thought I knew all there was to know about the world. I looked forward to having a great career, with a loving wife, several kids of my own, where I would definitely be the cool dad. I look back at that time now and laugh. It’s funny how confident about life one can be when he or she hasn’t really lived it. Emily Dickinson once wrote, “Dying is a wild night and a new road.” Out of death comes great change to those who are still living, a new reality. I consider myself a competent father, but were I to be thrust into this job of parenthood alone, I wouldn’t know where to start, and I would hope that my wife feels the same way. When we have children, we are gifting the world with a little part of our self, a part that will hopefully live on long past our departure. We are leaving behind someone who we hope will continue to move forward while keeping our memory alive, somewhere fading away in their rear view mirror.