My experience

Losing a parent was not the easiest experience ever. I was 11 when my father died. I was very young but I was very mature for my age. I went every where with my dad I even took him to most of his appointments.

My dad passed away from a brain tumor. At first I didn't know what a brain tumor was. I called my mom and told her daddy has a brain tumor by the sound of her voice I knew that it was not good at all. I was daddy's little girl the last thing that I wanted to think about was not having my father by my side. My whole life was breaking down but I knew that I had to be  brave for my family.

Today dealing with my father's death is still hard for me. My high school graduation is coming up and I wish that my dad was there to see me graduate. I know that he will be there in spirit but seeing him would be much better. At least I know that I have become the daughter that my dad will be proud of.

Favorite Food

Recently I was interviewed by a film maker named Ateqah. She was creating a new film which was based on people's favorite foods and how it reminded them of home. Participating in her film was going to be a great but also a very different experience for me.

Before she started to interview me I was a little nervous because I was not used to being in front of a camera. She made me feel very comfortable and told me to be myself and that made the whole experience much more comfortable.

This experience was very similar to a film that me and my friend Anissa are creating in our mediastorm class. It reminded me of when my mom used to make mangu with salami on the weekends and we all used to sit in the dining room like a happy family.

Shadow Remains

Today, I watched a video called A Shadow Remains by Phillip Toledano on Mediastorm.  The video explores how people deal with the deaths of their family members.  Family deaths has become an important issue in our culture due to the high number of deaths in today's world.  Death is irreplaceable.  Once people die we cannot bring them back.

In this video, Toledano shows how the death of a family member can change a persons life.  A Shadow Remains shows images of how people grow up and when there gone everything is different.During the film the filmmaker was saying how your life can change in a blink of an eye.  He was also saying that when there gone everything is not the same your life and your views on the world change.


To me this video is important because I lost someone who is very important to me.My dad died on October,17,2007 from cancer. Losing my father was like losing a part me of that can never be replaced. This videos uncovers the feelings that many people who lose a loved one have but they dont know how to express it.  It shows how at one moment in your life you can be happy but that happiness can just change almost overnight.  Death is a fact of life but still painful.

Feedback On Film Proposal

Yo Soy El Army - Clip from Big Noise Films on Vimeo.

Today our team, Triple A Productions, received feedback from filmmaker Kouross Esmail. Kouross is the director of Yo Soy Army.  We presented our film proposal for our film, Losing a Parent, to him.  He said that our film proposal was very good and that our topic was interesting. The only advice that he gave us was that we need to come up with questions that we are going to ask each other for our interviews.  Some of the questions that we came up with are:

• How did this event impact your lives?
• How did this event happen?
• How did you feel?
• How did you deal with this situation?
• If this event didn't happen how would your lives be different?

He also told us that we need to find video clips and pictures so that we can include them in our video.