who’s that Shawn Gabe’s brother yeah
where did the idea for shelter come from
personally I grew up in Colorado and I
was home on this lake I was watching
these two guys throw a frisbee back and
forth to each other as you can see you
to go mom you’re gonna play you’re gonna
play you’re just gonna sit here and talk
shit about Rob that is what turned into
them surfing and being out in the ocean
and really opening it up to a world
where guys can meet outside and be doing
those sort of things and not in bars or
nightclubs which is traditionally were
what we see so hey I’m your host Laila
today on watchmojo.com filmmaker Jonah
Markowitz tells us about his
award-winning feature film shelter
can you tell me a bit about how you
would describe this experience as your
first feature debut as a director sure
um I worked primarily as an art director
for the past six years on studio films
and independent films and I had written
the script about four years ago the
group and I was at a film festival for a
film that I had done previously and our
producer came up to me and said I’ve
heard you have this great script and I
have this company that’s interested in
possibly financing it and I said shelter
so yeah you go meet them and I said yeah
I think I’ll have to read it again first
but I could pull it out of the drawer
and a lot of the people that I work with
on the other films came on board and
helped me we shot the whole film in like
three weeks been playing festival
students have been in about 15 Buster
walls and it’s just been great
experience you’ve also picked up some
awards congratulations how did your
previous experiences art director
influence the cinematography in this
film the film takes place in two very
different parts of Southern California
the two characters sort of represent
this two different world so I think it
helped me to sort of be able to portray
those two different worlds and tell that
story visually what sets the queer
romantic story apart from any other
romantic drama we tried to make nothing
set it apart and this one we really just
tried for it to be a story about two
people you know falling in love and
realizing that they were making a family
that had to sort of adjust the family
that they created to the family that
they had it which i think is something
that’s universal and I think that that
really helped our actors we’re actually
both straight sort of understand the
importance of this movie and how to make
it feel naturalistic was that it’s just
like any other relationship music
calarts application Sean I’m not going
down this road again
while this movie is a coming-out story
the lead character is coming into so
much more than just you know his
sexuality or having a relationship he’s
learning to raise this this child is
learning to take on his own pursuits and
become an artist and embrace his
community and I think it will be labeled
as a coming-out story it also is be
labeled as a gay sir foam but I think
once people see it it’s not really
either of those
where did the idea for shelter come from
personally I grew up in Colorado and I
was home on this lake I was watching
these two guys throw a frisbee back and
forth to each other as you can see you
to go mom you’re gonna play you’re gonna
play you’re just gonna sit here and talk
shit about Rob that is what turned into
them surfing and being out in the ocean
and really opening it up to a world
where guys can meet outside and be doing
those sort of things and not in bars or
nightclubs which is traditionally were
what we see so hey I’m your host Laila
today on watchmojo.com filmmaker Jonah
Markowitz tells us about his
award-winning feature film shelter
can you tell me a bit about how you
would describe this experience as your
first feature debut as a director sure
um I worked primarily as an art director
for the past six years on studio films
and independent films and I had written
the script about four years ago the
group and I was at a film festival for a
film that I had done previously and our
producer came up to me and said I’ve
heard you have this great script and I
have this company that’s interested in
possibly financing it and I said shelter
so yeah you go meet them and I said yeah
I think I’ll have to read it again first
but I could pull it out of the drawer
and a lot of the people that I work with
on the other films came on board and
helped me we shot the whole film in like
three weeks been playing festival
students have been in about 15 Buster
walls and it’s just been great
experience you’ve also picked up some
awards congratulations how did your
previous experiences art director
influence the cinematography in this
film the film takes place in two very
different parts of Southern California
the two characters sort of represent
this two different world so I think it
helped me to sort of be able to portray
those two different worlds and tell that
story visually what sets the queer
romantic story apart from any other
romantic drama we tried to make nothing
set it apart and this one we really just
tried for it to be a story about two
people you know falling in love and
realizing that they were making a family
that had to sort of adjust the family
that they created to the family that
they had it which i think is something
that’s universal and I think that that
really helped our actors we’re actually
both straight sort of understand the
importance of this movie and how to make
it feel naturalistic was that it’s just
like any other relationship music
calarts application Sean I’m not going
down this road again
while this movie is a coming-out story
the lead character is coming into so
much more than just you know his
sexuality or having a relationship he’s
learning to raise this this child is
learning to take on his own pursuits and
become an artist and embrace his
community and I think it will be labeled
as a coming-out story it also is be
labeled as a gay sir foam but I think
once people see it it’s not really
either of those
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