Visions

Visions Film Festival was very fun.  I got up early and attended the Keynote Address.  The Keynote speaker was Kiva Reardon.  Reardon has a B.A. in Cultural Studies and a M.A. in Cinema Studies.  I enjoyed listening about how to she got to where she is.  It was very encouraging and inspiring to me. 

            Kiva Reardon is the creator of her own film journal.  She is the founder and editor of Cleo Journal, which is a quarterly digital journal of film and film culture informed by feminist perspectives. 

            Kiva Reardon and I may not have the same career goals, but it was nice to listen to sometime talk about how they got to where they are, the struggles they faced, and how they overcame things.  

I really enjoyed the the film Caught by Bruce X. Li.  He was from NYU and wasn't able to come to visions.  I wish he was because I would have loved to ask him questions.  I thought the idea for the film was truly original.  I remember in elementary school how serious it was if you brought Pokemon cards to school, even worse, how serious it was if you got caught!  I enjoyed the way they filmed it.  I also enjoyed the animated film Peck Pocketed by Kevin C. Herron.  Again they were not here to the Q&A.  I thought the animation was very well done.  Seeing these films makes me excited to continue in the my degree Films Studies Department.  I am so proud of my school hosting this conference and I am excited to be a filmmaker.