Pamela Perrine has been making brief movies since she moved to Watkinsville about six years in the past, and now her newest effort is accessible for public viewing on YouTube.
“The Journeyman,” which Perrine directed and wrote, was beforehand screened at 4 movie festivals.
One of many causes she needs the brief movie accessible now could be as a result of Could is nationwide Psychological Well being Consciousness Month.
The movie “offers with childhood trauma and never being believed, which is among the issues in psychological well being — how sufferers aren’t believed and the way they’re misdiagnosed,” she stated.
“The Journeyman” stars Jay Mohr, who has been an actor since 1992 and had roles in motion pictures similar to “Jerry Maguire” and the tv sequence “The Cleansing Woman.”
“I knew Jay Mohr and I needed to make the most of his superb performing abilities,” Perrine stated.
The 11 1/2-minute movie was reviewed in Indie Shorts Journal:
“Pamela Perrine’s The Journeyman is a layered social drama that brings ahead the discussions on psychological well being, societal rehabilitation and childhood traumas in a good, twin narrative. However, if you happen to thought the movie will be compartmentalized into one of many quite a few tales coping with psychological well being, you couldn’t be extra mistaken. On the coronary heart of it, The Journeyman is about love, compassion and maybe even a silent message despatched out to all these whose voices are by no means heard,” the reviewer stated.
“All of my movies are often about ethical dilemmas and household drama. I included psychological well being into this one as a result of I really feel like that it can be crucial — as a result of it’s so missed,” Perrine stated.
The movie premiered in Hollywood on the Chinese language Movie Pageant, then was accepted into the Chelsea Movie Pageant in New York, the Vail Movie Pageant in Colorado and the Portland Movie Pageant, the latter which screens movies from around the globe.
Additionally accessible on YouTube is a brief movie that Perrine shot in Watkinsville in 2018 referred to as “Angels in Rocket Area.” Most of the scenes had been filmed on the precise Rocket Area in downtown.
Perrine, initially from the Macon space, started an performing profession in 1991 and lived in California and New York earlier than her transfer to Watkinsville. She plans to direct a full-length characteristic movie.
One other brief movie she directed and had an performing function was launched in 2020.
“Lunch Hour with the President,” she stated, is her favourite brief movie. It was accepted into an Academy Award-qualifying movie competition and was properly obtained.
“It’s actually highly effective,” she stated.
“Ultimately it alludes to Abraham Zapruder, who filmed the JFK assassination,” the director stated.
