
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wow. I know I&#8217;ve been gone for far too long but it is for good reason.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;ll be the first to tell you that God works in mysterious ways. This semester of grad school, I took a &#8216;Gender and Communications&#8217; class to satisfy a course requirement. On the first day of class, the professor informed us that we would have the opportunity to either do a creative project or write a research paper. Although I am a writer, I refused to do a paper so I knew that I&#8217;d be doing the creative project instead. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I had my heart set on a short film and instantly had a concept that I wanted to adapt to screen. I wrote and co-directed the short with a classmate (Jamie Parrish) over the course of a weekend. After all the footage was shot, I spent about 4 days editing it all down. It wasn&#8217;t until I&#8217;d finished editing last night that I pulled out my goal notebook and looked at my goals for 2019 to find that a goal had been to create a short film. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;m convinced that God gave me an opportunity to do so through this class because he knew I&#8217;d procrastinate on it any other way. With that being said, here&#8217;s my first short film, <strong><em>&#8216;Reflection&#8217;</em></strong>. I hope you enjoy.</p>



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Short film: ‘Reflection’
