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Bonita

When you’re cut off fro to do is dive into another

That hat fil in Some documentarians want to reveal the world for what it is, show people a different side or a different angle Not me What do I know about the world? Only that I’m kept from it

Forwith a ca fil a world I could explore Not like the one I lived in, which had its beauty and its mystery—that hat I’d been told But my parents wouldn’t let me explore this world Too much of a risk So I created other worlds Irisks In ht on ht that was cast could kill me, literally

I wasn’t being hyperbolic; sunlight could kill me It’s called solar urticaria My immune system treats UV rays as if they are deadly poison That hy people calledbitch Either way, Va to it, so I didn’t mind

I thought it would even ood name for a production company once my film career took off “Another blockbuster success from Vampire Chick Productions” or “Universal Pictures offers two hundred million dollars to buy Vampire Chick Productions, but CEO Bonita Rose Morales turns the to it, indeed

The first fil Not exactly my preferred choice in subjects But h a skateboarding phase—that would be my brother and his best friend—and they were ers with a thirst for speed, testing the li the threshold for risk and for pain: I focused ave me plenty of material to ith!

I shot the entire fil at skateboarding stunts on the street below Despite the bumps and the bruises they had sustained, I tried to capture so caution to the wind But because of et close to the action I shot the whole thing from within my protective cocoon What a hypocrite

It wasn’t all bad, though I learned a lot about ca But when I was cutting the footage into souely watchable, it was impossible to cut out the distance between my subject and me That hy the film didn’t work No one wants to see distance Distance sucks

That was the biggest lesson I learned froave me the inspiration for my next project: my first “real” project, a fifteen-y called solar urticaria Hoas that for reducing the distance? I didn’t show buet more up close and personal than that

Because of my condition, people would ask me if I hated the sun, if I hated the color yellow I supposed the psychological effects of the rare allergy hat interested people the most I wouldn’t say, honestly, that I hated the sun or the color yellow or summer I definitely feared the sun; I knew my body couldn’t handle it But I didn’t hate it

They say there’s a fine line between love and hate There’s no fine line between love and fear, though, is there? Those were the kinds of questions I asked into reconcile my fear of the sun with the sense of awe it inspired in ht to others The sun was a bit of an obsession of mine Perhaps I had a bit of a est I definitely had a death wish

That wasn’t true I just had a wish to make decisions for er, well, that was purely coincidental

Exposure to the sun put er And because of that,decisions for ly frustrating relationship with the sun But it was nothing personal

In fact, the next project I started after finishing the short on solar urticaria was a project on solar energy At least it started off about solar energy Then, after doing soy baroness, Sasha Snow