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Stella Alder On our first Tuesday at ICF, we had our first lesson at Mole Richardson and then our first acting course at Stella Adler. After Mole Richardson class in Hollywood, we headed back to Lantana offices aka ICF in Santa Monica. Around 5:30pm, we all headed out to Stella Adler back in Hollywood. I…
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Other than making a short film on a camcorder and getting lost, ICF was something else. I spent the whole Summer living and breathing filmmaking. I was part of a cohort full of students that had this passion to make movies. We were young and learning to be fearless. The founders of ICF were a…
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Our first week was hectic and long. There was a lot of waiting around and just figuring out how the Summer would be played out. The first week of any new adventure is challenging. As I mentioned in previous chapters, my dad showed me how to get to school by taking Sepulveda Blvd since I…
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On the first day of Inner-City Filmmakers, we were divided into groups. There were six of us in each group. My group consisted of me, Marlon, and Hector, who I went to high school with, Brian, Arnufol, and Gawby. Our team captain was Allen and our team mentor was Jeffrey Berman. Allen was an alumnus,…
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Inner City Filmmakers brought a lot of first-time experiences including my first time driving on the freeway. The week before I was starting school, my father decided to teach me how to drive on the freeway. In general, my dad is a nervous man but teaching his youngest daughter how to drive on the freeway…
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I was about to finish my first year of college and managed to keep my seasonal job. Summer was around the corner and I wondered how I should spend my Summer. Another life-altering moment that Ani was involved in was deciding what I plan to do during the Summer of 2011. She had spent the…
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A career in the film never dawned on me until my senior year of high school. As I mentioned before, I had classmates pursuing filmmaking since it was storytelling like theater was. I was missing theater insanely during my first year of college. None of the other majors or careers excited me the way film…


