The beauty in life is omnipresent, but for many it is easily blurred or forgotten. Therefore the way we translate its language must be found in ever new contexts. Not only do we as artists possess a tendency towards the creative, but are bound by a dire responsibility to it. This discipline of film is an art; it is a seduction; it is a language of God. And the hints of beauty and visions of future that have been entrusted to us must be channeled with the greatest of circumspection. Not always cheerful or sublime, great stories have been told across the entire spectrum of human experience. Many are sorrowful. But they were stories that needed to be told. With so many of the tragic pictures, voices, and events that are taking place, even as I write this, at this moment in time, there are new stories waiting to be told. That is where we as artists must take our place, as those who would author the story masterfully, as those who would reveal life in all its color, whether it reveals pain or splendor, darkness or light. Truth, in all its confounding perplexity, is what we're aiming at.

A.Sjogren