As we get nearer to the festival, we will be featuring the various filmmakers whose work will be screening throughout the festival.

Introduce Yourself: My name is Brad Isaacs. Woody Allen, Milos Forman and John Schlesinger are the folks whose movies inspired me to direct. I think every director has his/her Cuckoo's Nest or Midnight Cowboy, stories told so powerfully it makes you want to do something of equal influence. Good luck.

Tell us about your inspiration and vision for the film: I wrote my script after taking a five-month road trip. My old dog Duke and I drove through the South, by the many apartments, houses and schools where my childhood was spent. Although I had (and still have) very loving parents, they were young and not ready for parenting at some level. They split when I was a tyke and my youth was spent bouncing back and forth between them and two years at a military academy during my fifth and sixth grades. Anyway, during the car trip the part of my childhood that was rudderless and lonely was fairly overwhelming. So I wrote a story about it and made up the rest.

What were some of the biggest challenges in making and completing the film? You need a lot of serendipity to get a 'small' movie like this made. Then you need even more serendipity during the filming and post process for your movie to be any good. I got some great breaks and some shitty ones, just like everyone else. I look at the final cut now and see lots of things I could've done better. But I also see moments that are truly magical. Most of that credit goes to the cast.

One thing I do know is that with our schedule and budget, the movie wouldn't have had a chance if we didn't have two amazing kids playing the leads, Cayden and AnnaSophia. They understood the story, disappeared into their characters and were brilliant. Any critical or financial success this movie achieves is because of them.

In the spirit of Jackson, what's your favorite Western? Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.

HAVE DREAMS, WILL TRAVEL, written and directed by Brad Isaacs, will screen Friday, June 6th at 4:15P at the Teton Theatre.