Leejaedi .20

­Born on the 7th day after the ides of November (20th) in 1989 to a man and a housewife, I initially suspected that I was the reincarnatio­​n of a Beatles band member as my chums proved it. I soon realised that this couldn’t be so as the idea of singing or having concert in Europe, or even living there, didn’t appeal to me in the slightest. With the exception of a passing infatuation with the music of some bands and singers, mostly unknown to a local folk, the 11 years immediately following my birth were fairly uneventful. Then I decided I wanted to be an artist. So I did. I joined the local art workshop in Quirino High which I attended for about a year. I was then found myself not into drawing anymore but into directing indie films when I was in my last year in High School. In 2007 I asked my classmates and some schoolmates if they knew anyone who may be interested in cooperating with me in creating some short films to be used in a classroom film showing. But to my surprise, there were lots of them who volunteered to help. They put me in touch with my first actors, Ged Diza, Miriam Ata, Levi Obligacion, KC Caballero, and lots of good actors who did their parts well and gave justice to the masterpieces­​ we’d created if only they were preserved. Jonah May Maminta, a good friend of mine, was considered a consistent producer of the films using her state-of-the­​-art camcorder phone. We all met on the Grounds of our school in Project 3 and they apparently met my standards and so did I. About a week later we successfully­​ were going to graduate high school, leaving more than 20 unpublished films.. And the rest is history.­