Making of SPIRIT MOVES
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Portland Premiere at the Oregon Short film Festival: January 18, 2026.
I am very excited to join this festival! This actually will be my first time seeing the film on a big screen myself. Hope many people get to watch it. So many other Oregon local films will be screened and I’m looking forward to seeing those as well. The organizer, Mikel Fair made a short
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The Bold Move
By the time I started planning the pre-production process, I had some book knowledge about making a short film. I learned two most critical things to make a good film: good acting and good audio. Fortunately, I had a cinematographer, Sambaran Chatterjee, who I met through a local filmmaker and he was interested and willing
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The Beginning – 始まり (hajimari)
When I tried to remember exactly when my first short film project started, I had to go back to all my old notebooks and writings to retrieve some memories. First of all, SPIRIT MOVES was meant to be a feature length script I worked on for several years. The original title was THE WAY and