Filmmaker Statement

This topic is relevant because young adults have so many stakes shoved onto them that these things overwhelm them and cause massive stress. With being hard-pressed to go to college, find work, find a romantic partner, have a family, retire with money, etc, life can feel like a series of tasks needing to be completed with little room for what young adults might actually want to do. With this documentary, we seek to show young adults that there are alternatives to the lifestyle fed to us by parents or other adults of that generation; we want to show how you don't need to have everything figured out all at once, and that there’s ways to be content and happy with the uncertainty life brings. It's important to be present and appreciate the things you have now rather than trying to figure out what your next source of happiness will be in the future. The project would cover how Hunter lives his day-to-day life mostly care-free; just like the waves. Meanwhile, his external responsibilities as