Bio for Jamie Schiller
Jamie is an undergraduate at The University of Iowa double-majoring in Cinema and Journalism. She is a Chicago native and is extremely close with her family and tends to include them in her films. When she graduates in 2010, Jamie hopes to attend grad school to study film more in depth.
Jamie sees her Journalistic side as an informant to her artistic side because it forces her to investigate and analyze everyday occurrences and norms in society. She has recently become very interested in gender relations and intends to put out more fictional work on the subject in the near future.
Jamie enjoyed working on Paramnesia and learned a great deal about studio work; particularly when the footage from a four hour shoot was unusable.
Bio for Andrew Zagozdon
Andrew is a student at The University of Iowa who majors in Cinema and English. He is an aspiring writer and filmmaker. Andrew takes strong interest to poetry and music. He likes to produce music for his musician friends and hopes to cultivate this skill enough to put his work out. Paramnesia marks Andrew’s acting debut.
Bio for Aaron Hurlburt
Aaron is currently a junior attending the University of Iowa and majors in Cinema, International Relations, and Museum Studies as well as completing a minor in Spanish. Born in Waterloo, Aaron grew up in Eastern Iowa and has developed a relationship with the area. While he holds a passion for filmmaking he also takes interest in diplomacy and non-profit organizations. He hopes to combine his love of cinema with these fields in order to develop a career. Most recently, Aaron has been contracted by the UI Museum of Natural History to help produce a sesquicentennial video and spot.
Paramnesia represented a departure from Aaron’s comfort zone in films and allowed him to explore drama as well as dialogue intensive pieces. Though the script went through several major renovations in preproduction that shifted the focus, the project was able to be completed in time. Among Aaron’s most loathed memories of working on Paramnesia, are crewing a scene by himself: operating a boom mike, umbrella, and camera simultaneously, a four hour set construction and shoot that had to be scrapped due to poor video
