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 Kohl Glass and I am a filmmaker from Mesa, Arizona.  I studied film at Brigham Young University where I made the award winning short films, The Promethean, and The Fisherman and His Wife. As my final project as a student I wrote and directed Der Ostwind which played at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

How did you become interested in filmmaking? I became interested in becoming a filmmaker once I realized the huge impact movies had on me even as a little child.  I didn't know it as I was growing up, but I loved hearing stories and I loved dreaming up stories.  Once I recognized that in myself filmmaking seemed like the only choice.  The stories I dreamed up the most were about airplanes and their pilots.  I was crazy about aviation and still am today.  So it is no surprise that given the opportunity I made an aviation film. 

Tell us about your inspiration and vision for the film: Der Ostwind is a short film about honor, arch enemies, and redemption set in the skies of WWI. It's everything I love, and I feel so blessed to have been able to make this film.

What were some of the biggest challenges in making and completing the film? Der Ostwind took three years of actual production to complete.  When we started we faced a huge learning curve.   We knew that we had the capability to make the film, we just didn't know how.  Figuring it out was a probably our biggest challenge.

In the spirit of Jackson, what's your favorite Western? On top of being an airplane freak, I'm also a western fan, thanks to my dad.  My "Favorite Western" title is actually split three ways between The Good The Bad The Ugly, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, and Lonesome Dove.

DER OSTWIND, directed by Kohl Glass, will screen in Student Voices III at 4:45P, Saturday, June 7th at the Center For the Arts, Studio 4 and Sunday, June 8th at 10:15P at the Center for the Arts, Studio 4.