Kind of an eerie blog title I know, but that’s essentially what this video came to be. In 2014 my dad passed away from cancer. A couple years before that I interviewed my mom and dad about my sister MJ because I had planned on making her a video for her birthday with greetings from her family and friends. For whatever reason I never got around to it.

When my dad passed away that august, I was looking through footage of him to put together for a video for his memorial service. I came across his interview about my sister and knew that I had to make that video happen that year since her birthday is in October. I went to the visit the Philippines, which is where my parents and siblings grew up, and came across a bunch of old photos my grand mother had of my sister when she was young. My siblings didn’t have very many photos of themselves while they were young at our house in the states. So I borrowed the photos so that I could take them home and make digital copies of everything.

Creating that video was one of the hardest projects I ever had to work on, but I knew I needed to make it happen. In essence, it was a way of keeping the memory of him alive. It’s the experience of sharing and creating new memories or general emotive nature of video work that keeps me in the business of digital story telling. I aim to become a producer or director of film documentaries one day. If not a full-time career, for my family at the very least.