In Her Shoes: Through a Filmmaker’s Lens

Soozie Eastman is making her tracks.
By Yelena Sapin



Photos past times Melissa Donald 

Picture this: The photographic television camera zooms inwards on a span of feet inwards sheet Vans slip-on shoes, thence travels upwards the figure of a adult woman peering intently into a photographic television camera viewfinder. We reckon her from the dorsum — a span of legs inwards dark jeans, a dark sweater-clad torso, her upper dorsum as well as shoulders obscured past times a drapery of blond hair. She senses our presence as well as turns around to await straight into the camera, thence breaks into a smiling of recognition. She’s Soozie Eastman, documentary filmmaker as well as executive manager of the Louisville Film Society. And it’s her plough to hold out the focus of the story.



Anything Goes
The alert rings inwards Soozie’s bedroom. We reckon her stir awake inwards a luxuriously comfortable bed, pilus splayed over a pillow covered year-round inwards a soft flannel pillowcase. She ordinarily plant until three inwards the morning, as well as her alert is e'er ready for 10:12 am. “I’m real precise nearly time, but 10:10 or 10:15 only seems likewise on-the-nose for me,” she says. “I similar to come upwards into the basis every 24-hour interval at a picayune chip of an strange time.”

For the side past times side half-hour or so, she stays inwards bed going through her go as well as personal emails. “I similar to tackle that first, thence I know how my 24-hour interval is going to shape up. Those firstly emails tend to ready the musical note for the residual of the day.”

Soozie’s role amongst the Louisville Film Society is to brand certain that local filmmakers conduct hold opportunities to teach seen as well as heard, to network, as well as to collaborate, but it’s a part-time position.

“My principal chore correct similar a shot is the producer as well as manager of Overload, which is a documentary on the synthetic chemic industry,” she says. “As a filmmaker, I’m actually passionate nearly media that tin give notice assistance impact, change, as well as educate. But some other matter I dearest nearly the manufacture is that at that spot is no 24-hour interval similar the 1 earlier it. From the 2nd I start reading my email, it’s anything goes.”

 Soozie adds the base of operations plate to her photographic television camera for the tripod inwards training for filming. 


Organized Confusion
We listen the whir of the blender inwards the kitchen. Soozie is making a milkshake amongst unsweetened kokosnoot milk, almond butter, dates, as well as maca powder. “Maca is an Incan superfood from Peru,” she says. “I potable this every 24-hour interval for breakfast around noon. I notice that it gives me a clear caput as well as makes me experience overnice as well as total for a while.”

Eating salubrious foods keeps Soozie inwards the correct zone for thinking clearly.


Because she’s non filming today, Soozie spends the afternoon inwards producer mode. “That’s all nearly logistics — making telephone calls, worrying nearly the budget, as well as putting together the interviews as well as shoots.”

She also puts inwards a few hours of go for the Film Society as well as makes telephone calls for the Louisville Film Commission, a Louisville Metro authorities organisation dedicated to promoting the metropolis equally a place for cinema as well as media production. “I intend I’m pretty efficient inwards my day,” Soozie says. “I’m non thence much a dreamer creative someone equally a doer artist. I dearest to-do lists. They go along me organized. Organized confusion has e'er been the means I thrive.”

Soozie has an extensive collection of cinema books she relies on for honing her craft. 


Interlude
It’s a picayune after 5pm, as well as Lily Wigglebottom, Soozie’s rescue dog, is waiting past times the front end door. The toy poodle wags her entire body inwards anticipation of the daily walk that marks her owner’s transition to manager mode. “The walk is a fourth dimension to digest what I’ve done inwards the firstly percentage of my 24-hour interval as well as to teach some fresh air, reckon the weather condition that people conduct hold been talking nearly piece I’ve been cooped upwards inwards my office.”

  When Soozie walked into a high kill Canis familiaris shelter inwards California, she asked to accept the side past times side Canis familiaris on the list
without seeing it first. The staff brought Lily Wigglebottom to her. 


An hr later, nosotros listen H2O running inwards the shower equally Soozie gets create for the side past times side 8 hours. “At this time, my 24-hour interval is only beginning,” she says.

Having gotten herself position together, Soozie heads out to run across friends for dinner, thence knocks out a brief draw of piece of employment organisation coming together over a slow tea. She ordinarily only noshes on vegetables during the day, doing most of her eating at dinner as well as equally slow dark snacks.

Her dietary preferences lean toward whole, salubrious foods. “I lived inwards Los Angeles for 12 years, as well as I notice that heavily influences who I am fifty-fifty though I’m dorsum abode inwards Louisville,” she says. “I loved beingness a Kentuckian inwards California, but similar a shot I’m acclimating to beingness a Californian inwards Kentucky. And thankfully, nosotros conduct hold thence many choice resources that I tin give notice hold out real comfortable here.”

Perfectly Imperfect
It’s 9:30 inwards the evening. Soozie is inwards her purpose watching a small documentary for inspiration. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wall of index cards outlining the even out of her cinema is sporadically illuminated past times the flickering calculator screen. She sits dorsum as well as goes into her head, letting her imagination roam. “That’s when I position on my director’s hat. I start formulating to a greater extent than of the even out construction as well as looking at interviews to reckon what I did, what I could conduct hold done better, where the even out is going to go.”

Soozie edits her go at the abode purpose amongst Lily Wigglebottom nearby.  


At 1am, Soozie’s creative juices are running dry. She puts on music as well as has a trip the calorie-free fantastic toe political party for 1 to teach her 2nd wind. “I similar to utilize somebody else’s successful inventiveness to springboard my own,” she says.

Two songs later, she’s dorsum inwards the working groove but is all of a abrupt seized past times self-doubt. “I am perfectly imperfect,” she reminds herself, shaking it off. “There are going to hold out things I trip upwards on, but if I practice the best I tin give notice as well as disclose myself equally really equally I can, thence I tin give notice inquire or practice no more.”

We can't hold back to reckon what Soozie volition practice next! Also, if demand a picayune inspiration to rev upwards your inventiveness or motivate yous inwards some other way, accept a await at what this woman did.  
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