Roberto Quezada-Dardon
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Location | Philadelphia, PA, United States |
| Introduction | After seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey I was hooked. A student of philosophy at Santa Clara University, I immediately transferred to UCLA for a degree in film criticism. Quite accidentally, I became a filmmaker and got involved with a movie that became a cult classic on my very first time out. An experience like that will take care you of you, professionally, for a long, long time, but it will also define you. The film was Phantasm. It launched my career as a lighting cameraman, gaffer, editor, and finally a producer. Along the way I dabbled at writing scripts and was invited to Sundance and Tribeca for a couple of screenplays they liked. My marriage to filmmaking was rocky, but it lasted 25 years and in that time I had brief affairs with other careers involving photography, architectural lighting, and Web sites. I made Planned Parenthood's and Amnesty International's first professional Web sites. I finally bailed on making Web sites and movies altogether and returned to my first loves which are journalism and photography. |
| Interests | Watching movies, Reading essays - especially first person essays, writing essays and poetry, taking and looking at photography, hiking, camping, family gatherings. |
| Favorite Movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fargo, Chinatown, La Strada, L'Aventura, The Big Lebowski, Pather Panchali, Treasure of Sierra Madre, No Country for Old Men, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Lawrence of Arabia, Star Wars, Sideways, The Hit. |
| Favorite Books | The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oacar Wao, Lonesome Dove, The Godfather, Catch 22, The Mandarins, The Long Good-bye, Far From the Madding Crowd, Time Traveller's Wife, The Road |