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Featuring "Unhinged" with director Nick Stentzel and producer Diane Mayne, featuring "Obsessive Compulsive" with filmmaker Derek Pueblo.
Passion can come with a price--just ask a student filmmaker. The filmmakers discuss the obsessions of the characters in their films but also how their love of filmmaking has become an obsession of their own.
More About the Filmmakers:
Nicholas Stentzel is an award winning filmmaker and photographer. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Media Arts: Film and a BA in Photography. He can most often be found behind a camera - either directing the action or capturing stills of amazing sights.
Nick has traveled extensively, shooting documentary films and photography around the globe. He has spent time photographing the "invisible children" of Northern Uganda, hiking through the Andes Mountains in Peru, and wandering the streets of Singapore. He has also lived in Australia and Brazil for extended periods of time.
Please visit his website.
Diane Mayne did not grow up dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. The youngest of six children, she grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado. She began her time at BYU as a Chemistry major but after two years realized that science was no longer her passion. In search of a completely new direction she took the Intro to Film class. It only took a single lecture for her to make up her mind and soon she was accepted into the BYU Film program. After graduating in 2008 Diane began working as a production manager for BYU Broadcasting on the series "The Generations Project."
Derek Pueblo is currently a student in the BYU TMA Program. Along with taking classes he teaches the Intermediate Film Production class. He is the recipient of the 2009 Kodak student filmmaker award and was director of photography on Inspector 42, which recently won a Student Emmy. Currently, he just finished shooting a feature length western, "For Robbing the Dead."
Featuring "Sou Da Bahia" with director Christian Jensen and director of photography Nick Stentzel. Also featuring faculty host Jeff Parkin.Sou Da Bahia, which translates to "I'm From Bahia" is a documentary about artists in a region of Brazil called Bahia. Filmmakers Christian and Nick describe their experiences as they related to and learned from fellow artists of all ages.
More About the Filmmakers:
J. Christian Jensen is a filmmaker with a professional emphasis in documentary producing and editing. He has worked on both fiction and non-fiction films in a variety of capacities including, production sound, electric, camera, writing, editing, directing and producing. His relative versatility comes from having worked on everything from large, nationally distributed projects (National Geographic Television, PBS Frontline) to smaller niche projects for regional PBS, public exhibit, and the Latin American market. Christian’s past projects have frequently been character-based or taken on ethnographic qualities and include a series of vignettes about Bahian artists in Brazil, a documentary about the last living leprosy exiles in Hawaii, an exposé on Mormonism, and an off-the-beaten-path series about U.S. National Parks. He has a particular interest in producing films that bridge social divides and appeal to both international and domestic audiences. Currently, he works as a freelance editor and continues to independently develop documentary features and television series.
Original Air Dates:
07/21/2010 8pm
07/28/2010 12pm
07/28/2010 6pm
