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California State University, Northridge senior Tara Lucia Prades knew the story she wanted to tell for her culminating film project—that of a young rose seller in the red-light district of Bangkok. She also knew that to tell the story right, she would have to film it in Thailand.
"She wanted to film in Thailand," Thomas said. "She insisted that was the only way to give her screenplay justice. There are challenges going overseas, and we, as faculty members, are always nervous because there is so much that could go wrong. Students are not professionals with a big studio behind them. They're students, and money lost is money lost."
Aware of the challenges, Prades, an international student from Thailand, tapped into familial and other connections in her native country and contacted various campus programs that regularly take students abroad.
"Since I am a young filmmaker, not someone who regularly takes students overseas, I wanted to learn the logistics involved," she said. "I wanted the faculty to feel safe and that I knew what I was doing."
She spent months doing the research: learning about insurance, travel arrangements for her crew and the professional film equipment available in Thailand and problems that might arise. She did all this before ever submitting her project for consideration. CSUN's film faculty give the green light to only eight senior film projects each year out of 50 proposed scripts. Of the eight, only four will be featured in the annual CSUN Senior Film Showcase held in May.
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Prades, who is also the film's director, took a team of eight Northridge students—a director of photography, co-producers, sound people and editors—with her and tapped into Thailand's local film industry for her actors and the rest of her crew and for most of the equipment.
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Prades, who studied tourtravel director leader escort jobs theater at Cours Florent in Paris and took a film class at the American University of Paris before enrolling at CSUN three years ago, said she was motivated by the work of other students who have been through Northridge's film program.
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