My friend Biff is in his early 20s and put a ton of work into busting out his first film, a wacky high school hijinks type comedy! I didn't do that much (holy cow movies are a lot of work) but I painted the flying bumper prop, kinda stage managed for a shoot or two, helped them find a last minute shoot location, operated one of those slappy film cue things for like 45 sec, and when an actor didn't show up I got hurriedly cast as a giant henchman. So proud of Biff- the sheer volume of details to juggle in directing is enormous, esp. without a budget.
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