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? Smitty’s never questioned the blind pursuit of profit. He drowns himself in dishes every night because he needs money, as if … Continue Reading Take a Little Time
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