Film Information & Plot
- Film made while attending
- Univeristy of Kansas Undergraduate, Film Studies
- Camera
- Canon 1DC, Vintage Pentax Prime Lenses
- Software Used
- Adobe Premiere, Davinci Resolve
- Film was submitted to following Schools
- NYU Tisch
UT Austin
Chapman
AFI
Boston University
Columbia University
- Were you Accepted?
- Yes
Director Statement
"Somewhere Between Freedom and Protection, Kansas" is about the exodus of young people from rural Kansas communities. In 2011 I took a job as the editor of a small town newspaper, primarily because it seemed like an adventure but hoped it would inform my work as a filmmaker.
In the hundreds of news and features I wrote at the newspaper, I found many were closely tied to young people and a growing sentiment that, once having left, most would never return. I wrote "Somewhere" as a film mediation on one young person and this trend of rural exodus'.
The film is about isolation, loneliness, distance and the weight of family-centered communities on young people. Much of the themes and visual ques in the film stem from my personal experiences and impressions of these communities.
"Somewhere Between Freedom and Protection, Kansas" is about the exodus of young people from rural Kansas communities. In 2011 I took a job as the editor of a small town newspaper, primarily because it seemed like an adventure but hoped it would inform my work as a filmmaker.
In the hundreds of news and features I wrote at the newspaper, I found many were closely tied to young people and a growing sentiment that, once having left, most would never return. I wrote "Somewhere" as a film mediation on one young person and this trend of rural exodus'.
The film is about isolation, loneliness, distance and the weight of family-centered communities on young people. Much of the themes and visual ques in the film stem from my personal experiences and impressions of these communities.
Great camera work, Good audio, Cinematic style edit, The direction and screenplay are very good___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
