Babel On (2015) The Film and the Making Of It, OR Working Within Your Means To Make the Best Film Possible With What You Have: As a lifelong fan of movies, I would often watch interviews with filmmakers, and would come across a number of them lamenting about how a lack of funding or resources prevented them from fulfilling their visions on their projects. For years, I was sympathetic to these struggling artists, but in the past several years, every time I hear one of these laments, I wonder why they went ahead and made a film when they didn't have the proper resources to do so.

The fact of the matter is film-making is hard. It can be mentally, physically, and financially draining. So, if you're going to push yourself to make something, why not make the best thing possible with what you already have instead of compromising, then complaining about it later? This is what I've done with the three short films I've written, produced, and directed.

For this presentation, I will focus on my second short film, "Babel On", a self-financed science-fiction short that I wrote, cast, filmed, and completed in 2 months with minimal cast and crew, to explain how I was able to stretch my limited resources to make something I wanted to, and most importantly, could afford to make.