finding inspiration through creativity I'm neighborhood reporter Matt seore and watching the Oscars got me inspired to work a little more with special effects but one local filmmaker is finding inspiration for his films through the state of Idaho right here Dylan Hamer was a filmmaker before he even knew the ins and outs of the business my friends and I would just go film stuff all the time you know I would come home and I would put it together on like Windows Movie Maker and show it to my mom I
mean this was like pre YouTube era despite the passion he had he joined a band for a few years only to realize much later that the passion for film never left my friends and I were once again filming stuff together and it had no real like Mission or Direction it was just having fun you know and and I think that's what like good film making is it's like it it should be a Hobby Action they'd eventually start taking the craft seriously putting together locally shot short films primarily in the hor
ror genre the early reception was unexpected we would show them at festivals and stuff and these challenges and like I I heard people laughing and I was like hey this isn't supposed to be funny or whatever and I've had people come up to me and say hey that movie was really funny and I'm just thinking like okay action but over time the Idaho filmmaker and his team started Gathering up the accolades including a huge one at the 307 International Film Festival in Wyoming there was like a universal m
ovie there and it was like it starred one of Marvel's eternals it was just like you just had some like cool High Caliber stuff there and we somehow took home best USA film and I was in shock I was like this like little team you know took down Universal in a festival that was kind of neat and with experience now under his belt and various Awards in his hands Dylan is able to reflect on the advantages of making movies here in the Gem State starting with geography the amount of like exterior locati
ons you have that are varied and beautiful in Idaho is unbelievable you can shoot in the forest you could shoot like in desert you can shoot in the mountains nice places and even nicer people there are people around that just want to be involved in what you're doing and I'd say the advantage to Idaho is that like we have a really strong community of people that want to work together and really admire one another and support one another and call it speculation but something tells me he'd rather b
e making his films here instead of Tinseltown I respect like what comes out of Hollywood or whatever but the amount of money that you spend just to get the ball rolling and the amount of rules that you have to follow it's astronomically stupid today Dylan thinks fondly on how it all started for him many years ago and always encourages others to never forget the wonderful things we create as children going back to when I was a kid with my friends and showing my mom our films you know it's like we
would all just get and we're like look at this and we would look at each other and smile and be like oh my gosh I can't believe we did that I don't know you you just feel proud of yourself that's the best part of creativity inspired by creativity but still trying to figure out how to turn this thing off I'm neighborhood reporter Matt seore Idaho News 6
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