Torres, said the purpose of the festival was to expose the area to short films from the region as well as films from Sundance and other film festivals. I build characters and then I start having those characters interact and do dialogue and then eventually that becomes the whole script. There s a certain magic that you can bring to the screen and a way that you can tell stories visually that you can t really do on a page just writing it, Greenfield said. Torres, a former after-school...

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