00:00So this is what happens when you leave your Olympic gear unattended, I guess.
00:10That was actually right before he left.
00:12I put on, when he was out of the room, I snuck in and I took his outfit and went outside and started playing with the dogs, wearing his clothes.
00:21All right, the last, I was going to say supper, but it's the last breakfast.
00:30I got you my toast.
00:34Yo, kick some a**.
00:35Baby.
00:37Hello.
00:39Oh my God.
00:42Unfortunately, it didn't work out with the visas and spectators aren't allowed at the Olympics because of COVID.
00:49So I'll be watching from home.
00:50Being in Mammoth is always amazing, especially because we're in California, getting to experience the cold weather and get to be in the snow,
00:58but also have the sun shining and have it still be a mildish winter.
01:03It's kind of the perfect place to be.
01:05And the festival just brings an extra energy into the town that makes it that much more electric and fun.
01:11I've been snowboarding a lot this winter.
01:12And I actually didn't bring my snowboard to Mammoth because it's, you know, the festival is happening and it's work.
01:23So I decided to put the play aside and just, I also don't want to get hurt.
01:29And I like to do tricks and do jumps and things when I'm snowboarding.
01:35So the one is a short film that I directed that is about a woman who starts off her day seemingly a normal day in the park and it takes a pretty dark turn.
01:49And I don't want to give too much away, but it does have a little bit of a black mirror type of age of technology twist to it
01:57that explores a lot of themes about womanhood, the challenges of being a woman, the decisions and choices that we have to make as women
02:08and just technology and whether or not it's moral to do certain things just because we have the ability to do them.
02:18This is something that I came up conceptually with a friend of mine, William DeFrank.
02:24The two of us wrote it together and it was loosely inspired by, you know, nowadays myself, friends of mine,
02:34so many women in my life are at the stage of their life where they're freezing their eggs or thinking about having kids or doing all that.
02:41And so the process was so interesting to me once I started to learn more about it
02:47and the fact that you can, like, they're called designer babies where you can, with technology you can decide whether you want to have a boy or a girl
02:56or if you want it to have blonde hair or brown hair, like the possibilities are endless.
03:03And something about that was a little eerie to me, you know, and I thought if you can do that now, what about in the future?
03:11Or what if you could hypothetically not only choose your child but choose to interview your future child
03:18and then make the decision based on how the interview goes?
03:22And is that right or wrong?
03:24So that's kind of how it came to be.
03:26It was really exciting because I've been in the industry almost two decades now in front of the camera
03:33and over those two decades I kind of used it as a learning experience and I would come up to the director
03:41or the director of photography or the grips or the electrics and the crew and pick their brains and ask questions
03:47and say, like, what does that do? Why do you do that? How come you're going in tight?
03:50And so over the years I started learning and became so fascinated by the whole process
03:56and storytelling is my passion and it's just an exciting way to get to extend and, you know, find a new avenue to tell stories
04:05and make impactful narratives that reach people and hopefully, you know, the goal of my production company
04:14is to make female-led stories for women by women and so this is the first of hopefully many.
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