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...when he's not off fighting in America's Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini Alvarado) embraces domesticity; Amy (played as a child by Kirstin Dunst of Interview with the Vampire, as a young woman by Samantha Mathis) embraces--and shapes up--the attractive boy next door. And poor retiring Beth (Claire Danes, who stars in a television series, My So-Called Life) embraces death--with...
...absence (when he's not off fighting the Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini Alvarado) embraces domesticity; Amy (played as a child by Kirstin Dunst of Interview with the Vampire, as a young woman by Samantha Mathis) embraces -- and shapes up -- the boy next door. And poor retiring Beth (Claire Danes, who stars in the TV series My So-Called Life) embraces death -- with exemplary courage...
Buso-Garcia's experience making the film exemplifies the time, effort, and deep personal commitment that students involved in the arts invest every day in order to produce the works in the annual two-day celebration. Maria Elena Alvarado '94, who worked on the film, recalls the early morning hours spent shooting the film. "We'd get up at around 4:30 or 5 in the morning in order to be filming from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.," she says. "And it was very cold...
...head, [Alfred Guzzetti] said no, you know the rules, only the students in the department can use the equipment." The episode has a happy ending, however. "When I told that story to the Boston Film Foundation they gave me a light meter for free." Maria Elena Alvarado, '94, in charge of continuity, seems to agree with Buso-Garcia. "You don't have to be a VES major to make a film," she says, but adds, "I hope that people realize how much work is behind...
While ups and downs are the norm for any undertaking so large, with "Silent Blessings" good times definitely seem to have predominated along with the hard work. "Everyone on the crew was so nice and fun to work with," Alvarado remembers. "We shot all over: by the river, in apartments on Beacon Street and near Huron Ave., in the basement of Lowell House, at Harvard University Press and the Casablanca." On a typical day "we'd get up at around four thirty or five in the morning in order to be filming from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., which...