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Camila Lemere '18 is a student filmmaker who lives with her family in Carpinteria and attends Laguna Blanca School. She is also the director of the film “Seven Hours,” which won first prize this year in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s 10-10-10 Screenwriting and Filmmaking Mentorship and Competition. Written by fellow Laguna Blanca student Jack Stein '19, “Seven Hours” is a 10-minute short that presents what at first seems to be a love story that could have been, but an unexpected and well-played break in the narrative shows a deeper, more-realized relationship.
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Camila Lemere '18 is a student filmmaker who lives with her family in Carpinteria and attends Laguna Blanca School. She is also the director of the film “Seven Hours,” which won first prize this year in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s 10-10-10 Screenwriting and Filmmaking Mentorship and Competition. Written by fellow Laguna Blanca student Jack Stein '19, “Seven Hours” is a 10-minute short that presents what at first seems to be a love story that could have been, but an unexpected and well-played break in the narrative shows a deeper, more-realized relationship.
Lemere, a senior at Laguna Blanca, also directed the short “When the Lights Go Out” in last year’s SBIFF, and was pleased to not only have been paired with her friend Stein in the competition’s selection process this year, but also to have had a full month to film and edit. In previous years, competitors were tasked with completing their submissions in 10 days. “It’s great to be working with another Laguna student because of the accessibility it provides,” Lemere told her school paper. “Jack and I are able to communicate with each other whenever and wherever we choose, and it’s so much more convenient than my situation last year!”
Citing a love for movies that she inherited from her father, Lemere says that she has grown passionate about filmmaking in her own right—particularly the art of directing. “My biggest inspirations are creative, innovative, driven, passionate women in the film industry like Greta Gerwig and Gina Rodriguez,” Lemere said in an interview. She says films like “Ladybird,” “Moonstruck,” “Flipped” and “The Florida Project” are what she loves to watch and hopes to create one day. Recently accepted to the Film Production program with an emphasis in directing at Chapman University—a program with a six percent acceptance rate—Lemere looks forward to honing her skills, while her future audiences await the movies she is sure to make.
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