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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

photo by Daniela Quezada

Roberto Quezada-Dardon: Philadelphia, PA, United States; After seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey I was hooked. A student of philosophy at Santa Clara University, I immediately transferred to UCLA for a degree in film criticism. Quite accidentally, I became a filmmaker and got involved with a movie that became a cult classic on my very first time out. An experience like that will take care you of you, professionally, for a long, long time, but it will also define you. The film was Phantasm. It launched my career as a lighting cameraman, gaffer, editor, and finally a producer. Along the way I dabbled at writing scripts and was invited to Sundance and Tribeca for a couple of screenplays they liked. My marriage to filmmaking was rocky, but it lasted 25 years and in that time I had brief affairs with other careers involving photography, architectural lighting, and Web sites. I made Planned Parenthood's and Amnesty International's first professional Web sites. I finally bailed on making Web sites and movies altogether and returned to my first loves which are journalism and photography.

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