Following the recent release of her debut feature film Spent (2017), I was able to ask Lisa Mikitarian a few questions about how she came up with the idea for the film, her influences and her favourite scene to film.
How did you first get into film making?
You grow up loving/escaping to film, and find storytelling has become a part of you. But there’s life. You join the army, get married, have children, settle in rural Virginia. A couple of decades pass. But during those decades you also go back to school and are fortunate enough to have some incredible professors who mentor you in the nuanced art and mechanics of storytelling. A small publisher in Tennessee publishes a collection of your short stories—asks you to make a promo video for it, maybe turn one of the short stories into a short film to help with marketing.
How did you first get into film making?
You grow up loving/escaping to film, and find storytelling has become a part of you. But there’s life. You join the army, get married, have children, settle in rural Virginia. A couple of decades pass. But during those decades you also go back to school and are fortunate enough to have some incredible professors who mentor you in the nuanced art and mechanics of storytelling. A small publisher in Tennessee publishes a collection of your short stories—asks you to make a promo video for it, maybe turn one of the short stories into a short film to help with marketing.
- 2/10/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- The Cultural Post
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