Hey, I'm Jude

The year was 2008. My sister received a tiny digital camera for her tenth birthday, and I was incredibly jealous. Luckily, she was willing to share, and unknowingly kick-started my lifelong infatuation with film. 

What began as the simple childhood pastime of filming silly, improvised scenes in costumes evolved with me over the years. In middle school, I obsessed over iMovie, making numerous trailers for films that would never exist. I also gathered extensive footage of icy New England ski slopes and summer swimming holes on a knock-off GoPro. By high school, my focus had shifted to collecting casual snapshots of teenage shenanigans, after-school adventures, and moments I found amusing.

After dabbling for years, I finally  started to take film seriously in my sophomore year at the University of Vermont. While building my schedule for the fall semester, I decided on a whim to take a film and television course on the philosophy of Breaking Bad. I fell in love immediately and declared a film minor shortly after. 

From that point on, each semester brought new film courses whose teachings, coursework, and professors quickly became the highlight of my undergraduate career. Through my film minor, I gained a strong foundation in theory and form, explored the societal, historical, and cultural impacts of cinema, and obtained practical, hands-on experience across the entire filmmaking process—from pre-production to post-production and everything in between.

Now, with the structure of the classroom behind me, I'm starting to feel like that little boy with a camera again—creating for creation's sake, only this time I'm much more prepared.