2020

Rae Ceretto

Rae Ceretto

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?  My first time directing was in 2019, when I directed a short film titled We Do Not Live Here at the migrant camps in Tijuana. The piece won the audience choice award at its world premier at Matador Film Festival and received a…

Merlin Camozzi

Merlin Camozzi

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?  I did a really cool spot called “Endangered” back in January for an organization called Protect the Joy, which was a PSA about protecting kids from gun violence. The agency was Vitro and the spot won Best in Show at One Show San…

Sage Bennett

Sage Bennett

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?  My first professionally directed work was a PSA that I made in spring of 2019 for a women’s empowerment organization called “Better Days.” For the director’s cut I used a Michelle Obama interview as the voiceover, in which she states “understand that what’s…

Emma Bell

Emma Bell

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first directing project was a short film entitled Scratch. It is a horror/thriller about a repressed 1950’s housewife driven crazy by scratching sounds coming from her walls only she can hear. We shot it in the spring of 2017 and it’s since…

Tayo Amos

Tayo Amos

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?  My first directing opportunity professionally was for an app called Inklo in 2017. My friends from college had an app that needed a video promo and it was my first time putting something together for a product and getting paid for it. It…