You may read the title of this video and wonder what exactly I mean.
I created this short film as a budding, insecure filmmaker with big dreams and none of the skills necessary to achieve them. Too fearful that I'd be incompetent leading a crew, I wore the hat of actor, writer, director, and editor. It's a film I can't blame on or take credit for anyone but myself.
By all accounts, this short film is imperfect. And yet, in some sense, it was the push I needed to get me rolling. Ironically, the film features my character (which is basically me) getting into Stanford, which I'd--to my greatest surprise--get into only a year later.
The imperfections on this films are one I'll gladly accept, as the alternative would be an incomplete, unwatched project. It would become nothing but a long collection of takes that would never see the light of day, never see a timeline, and never make it to a theater premiere.
How can an imperfect person expect to create perfection? They can't. But they can create something human. So this film--with all its rawness and blemishes--is the reason I've gained the confidence to continue pursuing my dreams.
I've decided to republish this video so that people can observe my growth across the years, and perhaps see a scale of what is possible within the time frame of two years.