hello welcome to a fistful of popcorn i'm marilyn campbell and tonight instead of our usual panelists we have guests and from the princeton public library student film festival two great well i was also on the jury as was ever it and we have to say how many they we have a lot of excellent films submitted how many a total were submitted i think about one hundred fifty i think was one of the strongest years and even the sounds that you know we felt were more were maybe especially when we get films and we don't want too many films that are similar but they get to be however you for that reason those films are really strong too so that's really difficult to decide what we have that night that helps a bit the other thing that's really interesting this year is we have probably the highest amount of attending filmmakers as we've ever had and you know i'm sure and having to talk a little bit about the benefit of us and in terms of being a filmmaker coming only in feedback on your film but watching other people's for my graduate my senior year thesis film from was in university and i submitted it to you know i had four festivals and i got into a couple and very different than the princeton student film festival i was kind of those festivals in like a dark back room it seemed like it was just like someone's basement it was like yes sure you can like you know programs and you know the festival is fine but the prison scene first film festival was so great because it really is just such  a celebration of all the filmmakers who attend and it's really agree you get a chance to talk about why you did what you did and it's a it's a full house always and the people are so excited to be there and it's just one of the most positive film festival experiences i've ever had so i definitely need to come back again and i'm lucky enough to come again so everett tell us about your experience last year in how you use that to work your way to could come up with and a lot of it was just like me lying on my stomach just moving i'm around doing it and trying again to do stuff that as that was something i thought to be about the impossible  very philosophical adam do you want to talk a little bit about your film of this here in the festival which is called i will date absolutely so for you punk bands out there the name is stolen from the first song off of the ripley's the replacements album let it be which is an inspiring point but the main the main sort of story in the film is about these two girls who what their parents are away decide to give each other tattoos  or but yeah it was it was an absolute you know blast and you know i wrote it and directed it with my current roommate right now billy finds it was a really great filmmaker a really great writer so it was really great to do a project he had he had helped me with my last film and as a producer and so it was really nice to sort of have him as a writing collaborator as a directing collaborator and being able to make it happen was so great so talk about how you found the actresses who are very young girls yeah so when we were sort of taking stock of what we wanted to do with the film we thought about sort of what resources we had and i'm living in brooklyn currently but i knew it would be a lot easier to come back home to my parents house and camp out for a weekend and make a film there and so we sort of we wrote the story and we actually initially we didn't know if we wanted to girls two boys a boy and a girl we sort of just wrote the characters not really having anyone in particular in mind and so we sort of hit the town a little bit i facebook message and  everitt to you know send out flyers as well and we poster dollar and princeton a little bit too and then we also emailed jody would who runs an acting school in princeton and with the help of the westminster arts center actually we held our additions there and we had twenty really amazing kids come out and i dish and so we had a full afternoon of additions and it was really great a of just the right personalities and you know they can act they it's as plain as that they're they're great actresses and you know whatever they do next if they keep going on with it i think they're going to be great and hello to me i think i believe festival you mentioned earlier they wanted to get a range of different kind of films what kinds of young recent films that are included in the festival well so we have some genetic features  think now's a really good time for a documentary a documentary like this to come out is seeing as to how the theater won best movie theater in new jersey this year which is very impressive it doesn't feel very lucky to be it's how such a great movie theater and what's really interesting of the film doesn't does go over the history of the current era but also sort of interviews i guess as older citizens and about what it was like going back to going to the theater back in the day and it's really interesting to hear about how not you know nowadays we think of the guard and that's a very sophisticated theater with like a great selection but it was like back in the day it was more of a kind of raunchy place with me you know i kind of question experience but also  i guess i can be a bit biased i personally thought it was my fear is that i've read some of the selections just because i think it comes at a time where i was sort of isolated in our own bubble and we don't really see the i guess different well it's changed gears a little bit about some of the comedies that king me is i guess a comedy sort of a mixture of how many adventure which is a bad dad playing chess and it's sort of  can't be and you know i know that was an example of film that you know it didn't require you know an extensive no from rutgers was that portrait of a painter which as you mentioned before is is kind of unclassifiable in mainstream film terms which is about a woman painting in her painting studio that also used a little did also also going to mention yeah yeah this is also this is one point i'm thinking back and i'm not remembering it is animation because the animation was so good that that was realistic but it was so the characters that type of sophistication and it's very well done well i think that those were older students i think they were graduate students there's a lot of those yeah yeah so they research certain they're ready to those not from the us had to reach a higher level of excellence as we did have a certain certain it's going ation to take people who would come to the festival and give all that extra value added the festival is and how some people can see these films absolutely so it's the princeton student film festival it runs on wednesday july nineteenth thursday july twentieth starts at six thirty both nights takes place t tell us what he's doing i think he's graduating from college and forever to tell us what's what he's doing at the high school in terms of his films are ok so what the one minute summary is i'm right now working as an associate producer for a place called abstract productions i do work with mainly with andrew rossi who's a documentary filmmaker and help them with whatever sort of projects he's working on