Danny Daneau
Director
Update: The article has been taken off the main website. A full version of the article is available in PDF form by clicking here.
Today our film got a great write up in the Park Record, the local paper here in Park City. It describes the the student film incentive, our panel, and the production of A Monster in the Attic. What I love most about the article is the way reporter Taylor Eisenman balances between the insentive and our project.
There is a common connotation associated with student filmmaking which I believe our film breaks. This is not a student film. It’s a feature length independent film, with financing that we as the filmmakers raised independently for a story we wrote and developed. It just so happens that I made the film while working toward my Master of Fine Arts at the University of Central Florida. The program is called Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema and it’s focus is on low-budget independent filmmaking. I used this as my thesis and was able to get the entire film faculty to help advise and mentor the development and execution. I am proud of the school and truly believe the project would not be where it is without them.
All the above now said, at the end of the day this film is going to have to stand on it’s own merits. We will be constantly battling the stereotype associated with student filmmaking while at the same time proving what can be done while in film school. I thank reporter Taylor Eisenman for writing a thoughtful article that frames our project so well, while at the same time, paying tribute to the student film incentive.
Read the article here.
[tags] Sundance, Park Record, UCF, University of Central Florida, Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, Taylor Eisenman[/tags]
