Film Courage: How many art classes have you taken as an adult, whether it’s for music, filmmaking?
Sophia Cacciola, Cinematographer, Actor, Musician, Director: I have taken no art classes since high school unfortunately. Maybe I should now that you say that I’m oh man should I go take some more classes. None. I took guitar lessons from a local guy for five dollars a lesson in high school. I was in the AV club in high school so I shot all the football games, all the plays, all that stuff on VHS. I did ceramics back then, I did painting back then. As an adult I’ve just been I’m going to do this. I think in the 90’s when all the riot girl stuff was going on I just had it in my head if I could just make it to a city, I’ll get in a band and I’ll make it. That will be my lottery ticket out of rural America and I think that was kind of the dream that was fed to us in the 90’s in magazines and everything. You’re just in a band, you’ll do great. So I have that in my head if I just get to a city it’s all fine and that’s exactly what I did. I moved from rural New York to Boston and I was like I’m in a city, now it’s going to be great. I didn’t quite realize nobody cares about anything that’s happening in Boston. I wish I knew earlier I needed to go to New York or LA, not that it might have made any difference at all because now I have this great body of work…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Sophia Cacciola is a Los-Angeles-based producer, director, and cinematographer. With her production company Launch Over, she has made numerous sociopolitical genre feature films that have played at more than 75 film festivals and have been distributed worldwide. Sophia started out in music, most notably as the singer-songwriter-drummer in the no-wave punk band, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.
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