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I took this photo right before we started our screening yesterday. Over 10 years of hustling to get to this point. Free jobs, pack your camera in your car jobs, favor jobs, jobs in the desert, jobs through the night, gaffing for other DP's, working in photo as an assistant, working as a PA, getting coffee for others, relationships, lost time with my kids, upsetting the Union, Joining the Union, paying to stay in the Union, making other people successful, recognizing your Achilles heels and developing them. All those pounds of flesh we threw into the fire. This circuitous route has led us here, to this screening room, screening our movie as tears roll down the faces of the some of the most elite powerbrokers in the film business as they expeditiously determine what is next. The buzz, that lightness knowing, there wasn't anymore you could do, that you put it out there on the line not for just this movie but for your entire life.----Cinematographer Leo Jaramillo