Catholic in Film School

The interview I did with Mark Banks, managing editor of Soul Food Cinema has officially been posted. This is the first of a series of interviews I will be doing with Mark each year on a quarterly basis until kingdom come, or at least until he decides he gets bored with me.

Fun fact: There’s a note above the first page of the interview that says my responses are written in British English. This was probably the most relaxed interview I’ve ever done since Mark and I had been emailing each other for a while and it was more of a conversation than an interview. So basically the poor man had to craft together my responses from everything we talked about.

So how does the British version of me sound?

SFC: And so did you have an interest in film making beforehand?

RC: No not really; I kind of fell into it. When I was much younger I wanted to be a scientist; I wanted to be a biologist at first, and then I wanted to be a journalist when I first got into high school. I had a drama teacher that had put together a newscast project, and he asked me if I wanted to do that, so I said yes, and so there’s this footage of me somewhere sitting in front of the camera doing this news reading to camera! And so I did that and I liked it, but I was more interested in the technical side really; I was more interested in loading up the tapes and sorting the equipment out. And at the same time as that I was taking a film studies course at my high school. So I was trying to figure out if somehow I could reconcile film making with journalism, and that led me into making documentaries for a while. On top of all of that I was also playing basketball on a scholarship, but I didn’t want to play college basketball, so in the end I settled on film studies.

SFC: Really – so do you think you could’ve made it somewhere in Basketball if you’d have been motivated?

RC: Oh I don’t know about that; I wasn’t that good – just tall!

You can read the rest here.

Pax Christi, Rebecca.