Oakley
Anderson-
Moore

As the daughter of a fruit tramp (an itinerant orchard farm worker), I can't say I watched a whole lot of movies as a little kid. When my parents moved from Washington to rural California to pursue the more respectable career of teacher, we got three channels on our TV – none of which I found particularly interesting. I spent most of my time reading books, riding my bike through fields of chiles and broccoli, and exploring the countryside with my dog.

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It was not until we moved overseas that I first began to watch films. When we moved to São Paulo, Brazil, a city of some 20 million people at the time, I had never seen a skyscraper before. It was the adventure of a lifetime, but living in a massive megalopolis was also a massive culture shock. I was then, at the age of 9, suddenly living in a major metropolis, I discovered the joy of film in a small video rental house across from my apartment building. They had modern faire and classics on VHS, and instead of being dubbed, everything was subtitled in Portuguese. Compelled by transition, loneliness, coming-of-age, and a new understanding of communication beyond culture and language, I began my lifelong love affair with film.

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Of course, I had no idea then about how films were made or that I, myself, could ever make one.

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After six years living across four continents, I returned to the United States, graduated high school, and began studying at University of California, San Diego. It was there that I first learned about how much fun it was to join a cadre of ragtag storytellers in the collective pursuit of making a movie. We wrote our own scripts and fashioned our own film crews after what we thought was determinedly Hollywood. Although I knew I didn't want to make Hollywood movies, I wanted to tell stories that hadn't been told with characters that hadn't been seen.

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I am proud to say that since then, I have thrown myself wholeheartedly into filmmaking, and it has been an honor to collaborate with amazing subjects and artists as in Indie filmmaker. For almost two decades, I have been a director, editor, documentary filmmaker, writer, and actor.

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I can't wait for the next story. 

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