both internationally and regionally to select films and i wish i could pick all the films and show them all because truthfully if we had the sponsorship we could do and show as many films possible cost very very worthy given the showing the occupation of isis taken from a different point of view that was affected by it so and in between we have a multitude of films but to answer your question yes we always try to look at regional local filmmakers especially satellites our u s headquarters are in princeton and a lot of our customers are media customers and a lot of a lot of television and movies that folks may watch on t v or broadcast through our satellites were with the largest satellite service provider in the world that's one the other is i happen to have an affinity for film i have my doctoral degree in learning and my dissertation was on the topic of film and learning the input film they have on learning so  our company is very much connected to the media world to the video world and me personally i'm also connected to it so are there any of the films here that you're particularly interested in yes certainly i'm really looking forward to the film about  sandman simms the famous tap dancer i was born and arkansas and lived most of his years in new york i believe and had a particularly unique method of tap dancing  boom this is actually a compile ation of some clips that my father filmed back in two thousand and five to celebrate the second anniversary of my grandfather's passing and i put it all together in this film that we're going to be seeing today just celebrating other details that occurred my grandfather was a former all his life he was at the apollo theater for forty years back when it was the vaudeville and then when it became the apollo theater since then he has traveled the so much longer than unfortunately he was given life with us on on earth so it's really amazing to celebrate his legacy and just really see the memory that he did and what were some of the influences on his career charged with taking on his legacy and really remembering him and having the community not forget who he was so i'm just so glad that it's in the nassau film festival and that other people you know on this side of town can see  over sixty two it was called life stories and you know i wanted to get their stories on film because many of them had wanted to record their memoirs  and it's difficult to start writing them down at that time in their lives so i had been working with prince a community television george had been helping me learn how to use the equipment and so we mentor to work with and you know i put together a group of people from our staff to help so it really is a learning process along the way so you learn all the aspects of creating a film it's quite challenging because you're starting out as a novice really so you know other organizations can apply for this grant and you know it's an excellent opportunity it is a of the work that i had done prior to getting the ground yes i would definitely definitely so it wasn't that it wasn't quick but you did are you thinking of doing other projects now that you have the skills yes that it would be great you know i'm also a writer so a writer and journalist so i've been doing you know reporting sharing people's stories for several years so that helped but it's kind of a natural segue to move into filmmaking because you can use images and capture people's stories live so it's an exciting process to see that transition take place yes one of the nice things in the film was that you know it only had people talking to the camera but you holistically and to share the diversity in the different stories that people have to share and the paths that lead to our communities thank you for sharing in this interview and good and theater certificate and he created an original musical based on interviews with vietnam war vets so he did all the choreography grading  producing and we followed him through the entire year he gave us open access to the auditions rehearsals his development of the script his challenges his joy there's a lot of humor in it and the really neat aspect is there's also aerial choreography in the production and it also kind of blends into a full story of a vietnam war vet and when he comes home and how he sort of  wonderful it sounds like a very layered production in that you it is what we did was we arranged to we actually interviewed him every month starting in september we'll see at the beginning of the film he says i just have a lot of big ideas in my head no script and then we follow him into his room while he's writing the script on his computer and listening to transcripts of the vietnam war that interviews we followed him into the hearse a hall when goal of the piece for princeton was to everybody knows about a senior thesis great but they don't always know what the process is and they certainly don't know what that research process looks like in the arts so by following the development of this original musical we get to see how princeton university students sort of attack this huge capstone project of their time at princeton and all the support on both academically and artistically that the university  seniors who are going through this process well this film has been chosen to be shown today at the national film festival but do you also plan to show it to other students at princeton so they can know how to approach center for the arts has the documentary on their website and we shared it on the main university website last spring and we hope to be able to use it as a resource as you like you said as a resource to other seniors w thinking about writing an original play or work and make a picture even prospective students to princeton they they don't always know that they get this level of very often there are professional waiting to signers and directors and stage managers are helping to bring their stories to life and so we think that there's definitely legs for this production excellent well thank you so much yeah it was wonderful meeting we have to thank you i have two films in the film  one is called an arm and a leg and the other is called code rush armor lake is kind of a hybrid animation film where it's shot live action of this an animated character going across the screen it's about an artist who  one of its rejected drawings comes to life and kind of helps or through the process trying to achieve what she's trying to achieve and then the second film could rush is kind of a more like hollywood kind of style where it's got a lot of visual facts and has a fight scene and stuff like that and it's a science fiction thing that has to do with like virtual reality and they have to go into the system and stop like they have to stop a virus and other people are trying to spread the virus and they have the kind of stop their plan and we use like set design and visual effects to help like sell the effect you know of that being in the virtual reality world and stuff like that and it was really fun especially doing the fight scene together kind of thinking about the effects that we could use to help sell the fight and also the actually got the great privilege to shoot on sixteen millimeter and actually footage by hand on a table which is something that just doesn't happen anymore so part of my decision to shoot in black and white was to achieve that sort of to to get a digital version in time is actually the print i physically you know cut together you know so those are just cuts and scrapes from just working with the film in future versions it's going to be cleaned up a little  bit but you can actually see where some of the tape is holding the film together and i think it's something you just don't see anymore and i was sort of lucky in this case that sort of a dirty you're kind of scratches and stuff