June 12, 2008

Member Introductions

Production is at a complete stand still during the summer (because this is a student gig), and I thought it might be a sweet time for an introduction. I realized I hadn't done it in the beginning the moment I got tired of writing "we" instead of "I" in all the blog posts.

Lives Agape is sort of an amorphous group. Crew members aren't tied to the group, and every time a new production comes around, I'll have to reconfirm crew members. I'm Amy, the founder of the company. Lives Agape currently serves solely as a vehicle for "Join This Group?" which I wrote, directed, and co-produced. While we have great classes at out Uni, I think that student filmmakers here need more opportunities for practice and experimentation outside of the classroom. I sometimes daydream about filmmaking troupes like the theatre troupes of old, everyone in it for the long haul, everyone knowing a little bit of everything, swapping jobs, creating cooperatively. I'm studying to be a screenwriter, experimenting with directing, and now am exploring producing. I hope that Lives Agape can become a vehicle for many other projects by many other student filmmakers.