My friend, Stella P. Arbelaéz Tascón had notes for James Parris, a former animation artist, now a director, His production company, Paper Tiger Films, produced a SECAC Film which was a short documentary about the SECAC Art Conference which is a national non-profit organization devoted to education and research in the visual arts. James wrote and edited the film. When I joined Disney Feature Animation on the production of Pocahontas, James was my lead for the clean up on the character of Powhatan. He checked all of my drawings and offered plenty of advice as he refined my crude beginners mistakes.
Together James and Stella worked on extending some shots and refining others. Stella turned the laptop screen towards me and James saw me for the first time in 30 years. Since I had completed a short animated film we discussed film festivals. James doesn’t believe film festivals benefit viewership. He prefers to release his short films on You Tube where he can keep track of viewership. Film Festivals are definitely a money pit. I had released film about COVID that had a very short window where people could accept my dystopian visions.