This film was a very personal, spur of the moment project for me. The deadline for the challenge was midnight on December 25 -  I decided to enter on December 22nd, just after I had finished finals for the semester. Day one I did sound, writing the script, recording it, and editing the music. Day two I shot the necessary footage. The last 24 hours I spent entirely in editing. I don't think I slept the whole three days, and rather disappeared from family Christmas. I loved every second.

There is literally so much about this film that I wish was better, every shot I consider to be not my best. But it tells the story I wanted to tell, it follows the journey I wanted the audience to go on. It created the atmosphere I wanted to tell a truth about myself in a more honest way than I ever have. So while I know every point in the production quality where individual factors should be better, I also think that as a whole it's an experience that transcends the sum of it's parts.

The important part was that I told the story. I did as much as I could with the little time I had, but if I kept working on it, the story, the arc, the mood, would all be the same. For that reason I'm proud of it - distilling the complicated, lifetime process that's behind me, that IS me, into a five-minute tale on a three-day turnaround. I both never want to do this again and ache for another opportunity.