One woman goes back to Baltimore to investigate what happened to her childhood theatre friends.
One woman goes back to Baltimore to investigate what happened to her childhood theatre friends.
“Through The Eyes of Others” hopes to reawaken our sleeping dreams together. A film that pushes boundaries mixing magical realism with documentary; it follows the life-long friendships of a group of theatre kids from Baltimore School for the Arts, and dares us to reimagine our lives and what is deemed a successful life. Through their eyes, we see that life is about much more than fame, material success and recognition.
Close your eyes and imagine you’re eighteen years old again. What sort of future did you envision for yourself? Who did you want to become? Maybe you wanted to be a doctor, a writer, a star. Now, open your eyes. Are you the person you thought you’d be?
Some of us are lucky enough to know exactly what and who we want to become at a very you
Close your eyes and imagine you’re eighteen years old again. What sort of future did you envision for yourself? Who did you want to become? Maybe you wanted to be a doctor, a writer, a star. Now, open your eyes. Are you the person you thought you’d be?
Some of us are lucky enough to know exactly what and who we want to become at a very young age. This can be liberating when everything turns out exactly the way you planned, but what if life turns out completely differently?
Young Meagan Adele Lopez (the filmmaker) and eleven of her classmates (known as the "ensemble") from high school all wanted to become actors. Not only that, but they were chosen by one of the world’s top theatre high school conservatories to take us into the new millennium as the next great actors.
None of them made it as actors.
Now, twenty years later, Lopez wants to find out what happened to the lost dreams of her class. Like an investigator into a murder scene, she leaves her prestigious but unfulfilling job in Paris, France to come back to Baltimore twenty years later to make a movie with her ensemble and find out: were their dreams of being the next greatest actors killed by unfulfilled acceptance? Did they die of an overdose of societal expectations? How and when did they die, if they died at all? Are they simply lost, looking for the right dream treasure hunter to dig them up? Or have they fallen asleep out of life's doldrums? Or, perhaps worst of all, have they been forgotten?
Cuban-Baltimorean Meagan Adele Lopez is a writer and filmmaker who believes we should never define ourselves by what we do or where we come from. She's done that before, and it didn't serve her well.
After graduating from the University of Southern California as a National Hispanic Scholar and acting in TV and film for eight years, she w
Cuban-Baltimorean Meagan Adele Lopez is a writer and filmmaker who believes we should never define ourselves by what we do or where we come from. She's done that before, and it didn't serve her well.
After graduating from the University of Southern California as a National Hispanic Scholar and acting in TV and film for eight years, she went on to become the director of the New York Times' global digital advertising team, and also founded one of the nation’s first social media marketing agencies. Now a filmmaker and writer, she owns her own production company, Lady Who Productions, Inc.
Her first short film, RAGING CULT, won nine awards at various film festivals, including Best 1st Time Director, Best Dark Comedy, Best Comedy and Best Female-Driven Film. Her television project, READY TO CONNECT, was short-listed for Bumble’s Female Film Force. She is a proud member of Women in Film, Gotham and D-Word.
She currently lives in France in a medieval village.
Her young adult science fiction novel, The Flight of the Hailene, is currently in the hands of Craig Literary, her literary agent.
www.ladywhoproductions.com
"Through the Eyes of Others" is a project that not only explores what it is to have dreams in Baltimore, but it is also how Baltimore either cultivates those dreams or holds them back. The Baltimore depicted in this film is not just one of drugs and crimes, but one where families are raised, friends of different races, religions, sexual o
"Through the Eyes of Others" is a project that not only explores what it is to have dreams in Baltimore, but it is also how Baltimore either cultivates those dreams or holds them back. The Baltimore depicted in this film is not just one of drugs and crimes, but one where families are raised, friends of different races, religions, sexual orientation support one another and dreams can come true. With the use of magical realism and beautiful reality, this film will show a group of Baltimore School for the Arts' alumni that will make the city proud.
We must remember why we create: to build communities and unite humanity. More specifically, this project will engage with communities in Baltimore, like Baltimore Homecoming, Baltimore School for the Arts and Wide Angle Youth Media, in order to inspire art as a method of healing throughout the city.