Okay, so I'm working on and off part time construction for my dad. Mostly renovations and stuff. So, we're at this place in West Vancouver. He had some flooding on his balcony and we were going to have to fix that. My dad said that the guy who lived there was a professor at the University Of British Columbia. I didn't think much of it, but I had to keep going through his office to get to the balcony and every time I did, I would notice things to do with film (First a book about Kubrick, then a book about film noir, the shawshank redemption script, a certificate or something from the Cannes film festival for 2000) so I thought he must be a film professor then. That's cool, so I continue to work, hoping that he'll come home and I'll get to talk to him. He does. He, his wife, my dad, and I talk about the repairs we'll be doing the next day because we were just packing up to leave for that day. My dad mentions as we're leaving that I was admiring his film stuff, so we get talking about film. My dad says that I had shown him Rushmore a couple days before and I was telling him the whole story of how Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson got their start (the Bottle Rocket short and stuff), so we got talking about them. The guy says that I should watch The Graduate and then Rushmore again and see if I notice the reference. I knew what he was talking about because I've seen both movies, so I cut him off and said "The pool scene!". And he kinda had this look on his face like "whoa, this kid knows his stuff", so we talked for like 15 minutes about lots of movies and then he started telling me about this program he was going to be teaching at Vancouver Film School and he said that I should come. He said he would get me into it with a "discount" so I thought that's cool, you know, I'll get a 15% discount or something but then when he was telling about it the next time I was over there at his house he said he could get me in for free. It's a $500 course, part time! It's ten weeks! That's so awesome. That is chance. It's a film history course which is awesome because if I ever go to film school full-time (which I wasn't seriously considering until now) I want to take a film history course before I get too into the technical stuff. Besides, film history interests me even more than filmaking and there's only so much I can learn from reading on the internet. I know I could just watch the films, but the only video store with all the old classic movies isn't convenient to where I live and it's great to have someone who knows what they are talking about tell you what to look for in films and sort of point you in the right direction when you're watching one. Isn't that cool as hell though? I can't wait. If he hadn't got me into this, I probably would have taken a business program or something at University but if I like it enough I might pursue it further. Anyways, I don't know if you guys read that whole thing but I thought it might interest you.

Congratulations! Hope you like it there!

Apparently, it's a pretty short and intensive program, but well respected throughout the industry, I think.

It's great when you're working in your environment, with like-minded folks...