This year I filmed my first short documentary! I’m already in pre-production on another larger one! I’ve never felt so fulfilled in my life! Put yourself out there. Even though it feels unbearably cringe and humiliating, there’s nothing better you can do for your soul than being fully yourself
Directed by first short film this spring and I’m in the process of editing it now. Or rather working with my talented friend and editor to bring the screenplay I wrote to life. It’s been a summer of moving through it, like intentionally not getting bogged down by things that make me want to give up. Everyone on my team and other filmmakers I chat with say that the most important thing is to ultimately release this film into the world because that’s the only way you’ll really learn and improve but, of course, that’s absolutely terrifying. So I ride my bike and do some yoga and hang with my friends and try to just move through that fear which I suppose is how I’ve been with most of my emotional life this summer: receiving an emotion, letting it crash through me, and allowing it to recede back into the ocean of it all. It’s been a really good summer. All in all, I’m super proud to even be here.
This is the short story that the film Arrival is based on but it is so much more. Entirely changed my brain chemistry I love being reminded time is cyclical and Love is all there is
Completely bewitching read it now
