Zombie Girl

[wilson]

I like documentaries so I just randomly pick them on Netflix alot of times. Over the weekend, I watched one called Zombie Girl about a 12 year old girl that directs a feature film with the help of her mother. She's not shooting on 35mm or even on a Red, but the fact that this girl sat down and approached this in a semi-professional manner was pretty interesting.

The execution on the doc itself isn't always so good, but the concept was enough to keep me interested. I kept thinking how awesome it was that this girl was able to stick with it and stay motivated...and secretly wished my parents would have been supportive of something like this at that young an age. I guess I was somewhat inspired by this.

She's 19 now and still working on things (according to wikipedia and imdb). I'm kind of rooting for her to become a big name...not a Mark Borchardt style oddity!

[Gilberto]

I'll have to check this out. I remember this Star Wars fan film I saw one time where they had the kids (like 5 years old) running around as jedi with these awesome special FX. Mom and Dad were the bad guys. I thought it was so cute how they would have this fun movie that they kids will probably be embarrassed of when they're older.

My Dad did a lot of little video stuff with me and my brother when I was about 10. We had just bought a video camera and we were playing around with choppy stop motion FX and claymation. We used to make movies with our GI Joe figures and stuff. Not that it led anywhere, but I think that had a lot to do with my wanting to work on movies.

[wilson]

We never owned a camera and my father certainly had no interest in sitting and making stop motion stuff, so that's pretty cool.

I did, however, make a music video for the Dead Milkmen's "the laundromat song" when I was 15 for my broadcasting class. My mother drove all of us to a laundromat (which we didn't have permission to be in) and she sat in the station wagon all night as me and some classmates made the worst video ever. The other patrons were really glad we were there, too. Good times.