On The Cusp, Longlist - Personal Project

Bowl of Life

Parker Schmidt

Brickhead

The exhilaration from growing up as a professional downhill skateboarder racing around the world at 100kph has brought an elevated sense of presence and emotion to my approach to work. Sprouting from the mountains of Boise, Idaho, to studying and getting the gears turning while studying in Berlin, Germany, has brought me to my latest home of Los Angeles, California, where I’ve found my people among film, surf, and pottery. My approach in film is to take the every day to a higher plane. Through elevated imagery across VFX, metaphorical creations, and emotionally driven narratives is what makes my heart sing. Rather than capturing but creating by every tool at our disposal in filmmaking to articulate what’s unexplainable in our everyday lives.