{"id":1286,"date":"2017-05-15T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2017-05-15T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:47:12","slug":"and-the-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"And the Award Goes To…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in March, I had one of my proudest moments as a dad.\u00a0 On a stage in a 75-year-old theater in California, my teenage daughter accepted the award for Best Drama in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow competition at the 2017 San Luis Obispo Film Festival.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t have been more thrilled for her!<\/p>\n

Flashback to December, just before winter break. My daughter had an idea for a short film based on the word sonder<\/em>, which refers to the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. (Haven\u2019t heard of the word sonder<\/em>? That\u2019s because this guy<\/a> made it up. But it\u2019s definitely a word that should exist.) My daughter planned her film, recruited friends to act, filmed in multiple locations over several days, and edited the film to a concise 1 minute 24 seconds, complete with graphics and music. She learned that the San Luis Obispo Film Festival has a young filmmakers competition, so she entered her film the first week of January.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t stress enough how much this film was her doing. All I did was drive her to a couple of shooting locations, encourage her when one of the shootings fell through, and sign off on the film festival application. She did everything else. Everything. She wanted to make a film and submit it to a film festival, and that\u2019s exactly what she did.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got more to say about the film festival experience, but let me share her film right here:<\/p>\n