A walk down the edit suites of Newhouse at 1 pm , close to a week before we are set to graduate made me repeat two crucial lessons to myself that I learnt this year in my Master's program.
**The people who work the hardest - not just the creative ones , but those who plod on tirelessly - are the ones who will survive this industry.
** "Making movies" (as Morgera says) is what I need to remind myself constantly, even in my weakest moment of doubt about whether this industry is really what I want to remain in
A year and half earlier......switching career streams was not an easy decision. Leaving Mumbai was not a very convincing one either. Coming to a new country and starting from scratch almost at the bottom of the pyramid in a new field.... that has been the toughest of them all.
But on days like this, as I saunter in to school way past midnight, with other TRFers (as we refer to ourselves TV, Radio and Film students) barely awake and still holed up in their Avid suites getting the rough cuts ready for our big day of screening , I am struck by what a blessing it has been, to have met these people who have evolved from being merely fellow classmates to teachers, to becoming my closest friends and now almost a family of its own. The sheer joy of collaborating with them to create something from the germ of an idea, to furtive scribbles on bar napkins, to a script and then breaking it down visually to piece into one organic story... I could start this process over and over again.
Newhouse.....you have been the best decision I have made so far.
Here's to TRF 63
