The Indigenous Projectionist Has Left the Building

A little over six years ago, I started a journey which totally changed my life. I still remember sitting down across from Gloria interviewing for my job at the SFC. Laid off from yet another telecom company, I decided that I needed a change. I left behind the 9 to 5 structured corporate environment, and the corresponding salary, to be a projectionist. The logical justification went something like this.... projectionists work with movies, I want to work in movies, this has to be the right thing to do. And I can say that it definitely was.

Now at the close of SDFF 31, my seventh festival round, the journey I stared with only a hope finds me with my BA in Film Studies, and a wonderful husband who's support has made the move to New York and the pursuit of my MA in Media Studies a reality. I have also found a great group of friends who I truly hope I can always work with and hope to
get to see at least once a year.

2008 was the year of the leap of faith, and what a leap it has been.