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Issue #179 – Student Successes
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Caleb Dixon’s (Nashville, TN) first interest in film came as a 10-year old kid, playing with his parent’s old video camera—a practice which he says got him in a bit of trouble.
“I just started filming stuff,” he says. “Unbeknownst to me I was probably filming over a lot of old family events and reunions and such. So my parents started to get down my throat for that, obviously. But I would start making little home movies and skits, and I just really enjoyed it, editing and just figuring out different kinds of effects I could do and other fun things.”
A few years later, his interest in the camera was rekindled by his oldest brother, a broadcast journalist in the army.
“They sent him all over Europe, so he got to travel and shoot stuff,” says Caleb. “He’s always wanted to be a journalist, and then cameras just kind of came along with that…I was like, man, I kind of always wanted to film stuff too. So maybe this could be something I could get into. So maybe four or five years ago, when I was 15, I bought my first DSLR camera and started making little short videos.”
Despite Caleb’s interest in film, the idea of more schooling after high school didn’t appeal to him. “I was never super interested in school,” he admits. “I love learning. My whole personality type is just learning things…but school just wasn’t quite my speed…I didn’t want to go to college.”
Even while scoping out film schools in Nashville, Caleb says he was on the fence about the whole thing. “Everything just felt too class-oriented for me,” he says. “I just wanted a mentorship, I wanted something that was always hands-on, and also a little bit more affordable.”
When Caleb discovered the Film Connection could give him exactly the type of mentorship he wanted in his own home town, he was hooked. He remembers meeting up for the first time at a local Starbucks with Film Connection mentor Zac Adams of Skydive Films.
“He has a binder in his hands…he just came right off of a shoot to meet me,” says Caleb. So it was cool just to see, like this isn’t just like some mentor who knows something about the film industry. This guy is currently working on films, he’s invested, he’s taking time out of his day from a shoot to come and help me…It was really cool just to kind of hear his experiences of all the things that he gets to bring his apprentices on. He was telling me some of the places that he’s taken some of his past students and some of the celebrities that he’s worked with in the last couple years, and really what sold me was him telling me all the shoots that he has coming up…I wanted to jump in as quickly as possible.”
Brandon Russell (seated) and Caleb Dixon, Morgan Clark EPK
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