Over the weekend there was a film festival in Columbia. Did you know about it? The Columbia Film Crawl has been around for the last few years and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great opportunity to celebrate the creative abilities of local film talent in South Carolina. The South Carolina Arts Commission is the driving force behind it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but there are many supporters who make it happen. <\/p>\n
I have a vested interest in it, I must admit. <\/p>\n
You see, my son is a young independent filmmaker who lives here and has a passion for making movies. <\/p>\n
He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had a camera in his hand since he was four and he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to put it down for many things. <\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always supported his efforts, though I am very glad he did get a degree in Media Arts at USC. Since he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hands on kind of guy, getting that degree was not always as motivating to him as it was to me. He hung in there, though, and I am proud of him for accomplishing that. <\/p>\n
So when he entered this film festival competition called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Toaster Film Festival\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the second time I was not surprised. He and some of his colleagues put the film together pretty quickly and it was off to the competition. Months went by and they heard nothing. <\/p>\n
Then, one day a letter came. It congratulated them for taking first place honors. <\/p>\n
Saturday we celebrated publicly at the Nickelodeon Theatre with the others that were there. <\/p>\n
It was a great time meeting the actors, the other creative minds, the other like minded movie lovers. <\/p>\n
Yes, we celebrated\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just like the song suggests you do when you have something to be proud of. <\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad my son does what he does. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m proud of him for continuing down the path he is passionate about. <\/p>\n
My wish for you today<\/strong> is that, if you have children, you encourage them to follow their dreams and support them along the way. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing more fulfilling than to see your baby grow into a young man and follow his dreams. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have children, my wish for you today<\/strong> is that you support young people whenever you have a chance\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and, of course, celebrate with them as they succeed in their efforts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6encouraging them when there are bumps along the way.<\/p>\n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the weekend there was a film festival in Columbia. Did you know about it? The Columbia Film Crawl has been around for the last few years and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great opportunity to celebrate the creative abilities of local film talent in South Carolina. The South Carolina Arts Commission is the driving force behind it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,15,16,27,18,31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-familyfriends-gatherings","category-jobs-careers","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-parenting-families","category-releationships-general","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}