Breaking Baz: Filmmaking Newcomer Jacob Stefiuk Hopes To Follow In Footsteps Of Telluride Alum Barry Jenkins
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jacob Stefiuk from Montreal was part of the 2023 Telluride Film Festival student symposium intake — where Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins sharpened his filmmaking chops 20 years ago — and the experience has been life-changing.
The town of Telluride is tucked into a box canyon surrounded by towering picturesque peaks in the southwestern neck of Colorado.
There are parks, waterfalls and river walks. It was here last year that Stefiuk was able to clear his head and write the most personal section of his first film, a 22-minute short called The Clearing. “It was the first film that didn’t involve school,” says Stefiuk, who studied film production at Concordia University in Montreal.
I met Stefiuk and other students at last year’s Telluride. He recently sent me a copy of The Clearing, and it’s a beautifully poetic work that he shot in the Gaspésie region of the St.
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