Today we’d like to introduce you to Aaric Lupo.
Hi Aaric, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
When I was young I was obsessed with Godzilla. My grandparents took notice of that and brought me and my brother to a local park to make my first movie at the age of 5! It was about Godzilla washing up on an unknown shore and I was so worried about my toys winding up in the river that I kept ruining the shots by running into frame to save them! Since then I have written countless scripts and made dozens of movies. I still have all of them—even the tape with my first movie on it!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
My journey has been very rewarding but it absolutely has not been without its challenges. The biggest challenge being money—a lack of it! When we shot my latest film, ‘The Vessel’, my crew and I were working entirely on passion and love. All we could do was scrounge together every resource we possibly could. Orson Welles once said, “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” How can you turn your limitations into your strengths? What I am most proud of with this film is that when you watch it you can feel the love we all had for this project. It is that feeling that makes creating art worth it.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Before anything, I am a writer first and foremost. I make movies and I make music but the basis of those mediums is storytelling. How do you tell a story that is going to surprise an audience and keep them engaged while also providing a message that you believe in? That is the question I ask myself before beginning any project. Writing is at the center of everything I do.
Can you talk to us about how you think about risk?
I recently moved from a small town in Tennessee to a big city—Austin, TX. In doing so I had to give up a great deal of my social life and the world I knew and was comfortable with in order to focus more on my creative work. It is absolutely a risk however I believe the bigger risk would be to not give your one chance at life everything you had.
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