CCFP: What is your background in filmmaking?
Shane Gillis: I've wanted to make movies for as long
as I can remember, but really got motivated in the mid to late 90s with the
introduction of the Mini-DV format. That was the first type of camera I bought
for myself. It was also around this same time that non-linear video editing became
accessible to pretty much anyone with a computer and capture card. Before that,
I was always interested, but never had the equipment to shoot or edit film. I
began reading everything from Rick Scmidt's Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car
Prices to boring manuals on how cameras worked, film and digital. So really, I
was just a movie fan that got obsessed and blindly started learning by
doing. Lots of terrible shorts and half
a feature from those days…. Luckily our
house got robbed and all that was stolen.
