A story in the making for over 50 years finally got its chance to shine at the annual HU Five-Minute Film Festival Nov.1-2. Siblings, seniors Matt and Kaylee Rice, created a documentary, \u201cI Remember,\u201d about their family for their documentary filmmaking class.
\nThe idea came about over the past summer when their grandmother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, needed to be placed in memory care. The duo was organizing their grandmother\u2019s attic when they discovered hundreds of Kodachrome photo slides. No one in their family knew about these. Many were unlabeled and dated back to when their grandmother was in high school during the 1950s.
\nMatt said it was interesting researching their family through these old photos and videos, and it connected him to his family. Passionate about film, Matt has completed many video projects.
\n\u201cThis is a very different project from anything I\u2019ve ever worked on, just because it\u2019s so personal,\u201d Matt said. \u201cOur grandfather died before Kaylee was born and when I was very young, and I have very vague memories of him, but it\u2019s so strange to see a little bit of what life was like back then and to see what they were like back then. It\u2019s so weird. It\u2019s almost like it\u2019s hereditary, because you see similarities between the way we are looking at them, and you see a little bit of yourself in a different person from another time.\u201d
\nAccording to Kaylee, her and her brother\u2019s shared love for film began during childhood.
\n\u201cFilm has always been Matt\u2019s thing, ever since we were little,\u201d Kaylee said. \u201cAround [the time] when he was 12 and I was 8, our parents gave him a little film camera for Christmas, and [during] our whole childhood, Matt was always writing and making movies, and I was always kind of like his sidekick. I would be covered in fake blood for a movie, or I would hold the microphone or the lighting kit, so that\u2019s always been our thing for our whole life.\u201d
\n\u201cI Remember\u201d won multiple awards at the Five-Minute Film Festival, including Best Documentary and Audience Choice.
\nCo-writer senior Spencer Wright said it was an honor to work with both Matt and Kaylee. He also said the entire experience humbled him, and seeing their work on the screen during the festival made him very excited.
\n\u201cWhen it was on the big screen, I got a little giddy knowing that this was a story to this point that hasn\u2019t been told, and now it\u2019s been compiled and put together in such a way that it can be shared through this medium of film,\u201d Wright said. \u201cThat was a story that was waiting to be told, and I guess that is what documentaries and film are: They\u2019re stories that are just waiting to be told, and documentarians are the ones that get to package it and give it.\u201d
\nMatt and Kaylee plan to submit their family documentary to other film festivals in hopes of it having a run on the film festival circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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