That no matter how beautiful our surroundings are, none of them will replace the people around us.

It gives students a way to share their work to a wider audience and be recognized for it. That’s important, because you can buy gear, but if you’re in an area that media isn’t a big deal, you can’t buy recognition. You can only earn it.

The restaurant scenes were really cool to shoot; it was an intensely beautiful place, and the chef was the one waiting for us when we arrived. Some of the background ambience is made of him and my mom making conversation behind the camera.

My biggest lesson shooting this one was to ask people yourself with you own voice! Every place we shot at I called in advance, and it took me weeks to get into these locations. The week before shooting, I didn’t know anybody, and now, I have connections all over Natchez.

The only thing I can tell you is do it yourself. Go and do things that you know you don’t know how to do. Everything you hear that you don’t know about, look it up and learn as much as you can. Your means with rise with your knowledge; that’s why even people with big budgets can still make bad films.