detail driven creative cohesion
Read it over here, read it over there: Take a Little Time just picked up its first Best Short WIN…Best Student Short at this season’s Kansas Arthouse Festival lineup, that … Continue Reading WINNER: Best Student Short, Kansas Arthouse Festival
Brooklyn, New York, 3/10/2022 – Jake Jurich, Penn State’s Spring 2021 Film Production Student Marshal, has won two prestigious Awards of Merit from the IndieFEST Film Awards. Both awards were given … Continue Reading Rising Filmmaker Splashes Into IndieFEST Film Awards
How much is too much to make off misfortune?
The Take a Little Time shoot was a blur, but one of such creativity, focus, and joy—I’ll never forget these five days in October 2020. And that was the first … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – SHOOTING
There’s two casts of Take a Little Time: Spring 2020 (pre-COVID), and Fall 2020 (mid-COVID). Although Zeke Winitsky and Jake Mayer hold the special title of being on both lists, … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Casting
When I was gearing up to shoot Take a Little Time last spring before COVID, the only to-do I had under art/props was “find silverware set; engrave a knife.” I … Continue Reading Take a Little Time – Art/Set Design, Props
From “The Communicator,” Jan. 2021: https://communicator.bellisario.psu.edu/article/student-adapts-leads-team-as-it-completes-film-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic
Wheat used to kill me. Now there’s a pandemic for that. Director’s Statement I grew up with a camera in one hand and an Epi-Pen in the other. My first … Continue Reading WHEAT-19
Midnight On Canvas was due by midnight, online on Canvas (in January 2020). So there’s the title off the rip. But more significantly, with this piece for my COMM 445 … Continue Reading Midnight On Canvas
Quackhead is my final project from my COMM 339 experimental film class. I planned, shot, and edited it over the span of a week in December 2019. Initially, all I … Continue Reading Quackhead
Fight of the Loom is a stop motion project I shot in September 2019, and finished the following month for my COMM 339 experimental filmmaking class. The initial concept centered … Continue Reading Fight of the Loom