Official selection of the 4th annual Mosaic Student Film Festival.
** WINNER - BEST COLLEGE DOCUMENTARY - MSFF 2011**
Filmmaker survey for Tom Doherty & Jayson Phommavongsa - Co-directors of the film "Rockford Pro-Life" which screened at the 4th annual Mosaic Student Film Festival in 2011.
Tom Doherty
Your college or high school: Rock Valley College
Your hometown: Rockford, IL
Who are your film influences? Early Shyamalan films, Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter's Halloween
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? I don't know what the first one was, but I remember seeing movies as early as 1994 with Little Women when I was 4, Pebble and the Penguin in 1995 and Muppet's Treasure Island 1996.
What is your favorite movie and why? There are so many great movies, that this is an impossible question for me to answer. Too many different genres, too many movies that are great for entertainment purposes, and too many movies that are great for reasons pertaining to art. I don't have a favorite movie, I just can't boil it down to one.
What are you doing/working on this summer? I'm taking a summer class at Rock Valley called Motion Picture Production. Its a film class over the summer where we make short films! I directed the all class project "Operation: Search and Destroy" and was/am the Assistant Director/Grip/Editor for a small group project called "Verbatim". Both are currently in post-production and should be finished by August 4th-ish. I was also a Key Grip for a 48 hour film project, called "Earth Song", which I hope will be online shortly.
What was your inspiration for the film? We wanted to document the Pro-Life community here in Rockford.
Jayson Phommavongsa
Your college or high school: Rock Valley College
Your hometown: Rockford, Illinois
Who are your film influences? Alfred Hitchcock, Lasse Hallström, and Christopher Nolan
What was the first movie you saw in theaters? This is probably way back when I was 5 years old watching some American with Thai translation. And this is when I lived in Thailand. I believe my first film were Toy Story.
What is your favorite movie and why? My favorite movie so far is “Inception”
What are you doing/working on this summer? I am currently taking a summer course at Rock Valley called “Motion Picture Production.” It’s a film class over the summer where my classmate and I make short films! During this course, I was chosen to be in charge of post-production in audio work & music scores for our class film called, "Operation: Search and Destroy" and running a position as Cinematographer for a small
group’s film called, "Verbatim".