My experience at FilmSchoolSF, which offers one of the best digital filmmaking programs in California, has been quite unforgettable. Being born and raised in Healdsburg, California, a town of about 10,000 people where you always know what’s going on, then moving to San Francisco with nearly 800,000 people to attend film school was quite intimidating. Over time I did get used to living here in the big city, I’ve had a lot of great times and made some wonderful new friends with the staff and students at FilmSchoolSF.

I had been creating music from the age of 15 and about two years ago I decided to change it up a bit and express myself through film. Before I was enrolled in FilmSchoolSF, I had been researching film schools from San Francisco to New York for about a year. One of the reasons I chose FilmSchoolSF was because of the size of the classes. Even with all of the equipment and a huge production studio you still get one on one treatment with the instructors, it gives it that small town feeling, which I was attracted to. I entered this digital filmmaking program knowing absolutely nothing about the filmmaking process, and from the excellent writing programs, to the lectures on pre production, and, of course, the hands on digital filmmaking experience, I feel I am leaving FilmSchoolSF very confident about my filmmaking skills.

My goal for the future is to work my style into the film business. I would like to see more films that trust the audience with more complex plots, motifs, and themes. Stylistically, I would like to make puzzle-like, open-ended films that encourage viewers to work towards their own underlying meanings. A great film to me is one that encourages self-reflection by forcing me to think. Two of my biggest inspirations are David Lynch and Christopher Nolan.

My latest film, “Reflection,” is currently in post-production having a custom score composed by Producer Ian Taggart of Babygrande records. The film is about a character living in a mental rehab facility involuntarily creates fantasies around news reports he sees and hears. We are pulled deep inside of his chaotic mind, allowing us to witness firsthand his twisted imagination and its reactions to the physical universe.

Jeremiah C. Capurro

Digital Filmmaking Program, Fall 2006

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