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  • The Journey

    It was 1895, and a 16-year-old girl traveling alone left Helsingborg, Sweden, on the S.S. Sicilia for New York City. That young girl was my great-grandmother, Hilma Sjoblom. Upon arriving in New York, she soon found herself at Ellis Island and went through the medical and legal inspection that allowed her to enter the United…

  • The Intermission

    When I first started to get involved in this industry on the other side of the camera as a filmmaker, there were a variety of rules I started to hear. A screenplay should never be over 120 pages and even better if it was only 90 pages. Then there was the runtime of films themselves…