My Future as a Director

  Grade 6 · 2024–2025

Grade 6 student Happy Jayden makes the case, in two parts, for a future as a film director — equal parts personal manifesto and a surprisingly thoughtful essay on why movies matter, taking in Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, the role of colour and sound in film, and ten reasons movies are good for us.

Title page of the essay My Future as a Director by Happy Jayden, Grade 6 Read the full essay →

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