I approached the head of the school, Ellen Thomas, about teaching vfx to kids as a way to get them interested in technology as a narrative device, but also as a way to help out kids who are already interested in sci fi movies and don't know where to start. O'Neill: Earlier in the year I had juried a youth film festival and saw how many of the kids had tried doing some vfx with varying success.
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Wecks: So how did you go from making a science fiction movie to teaching at movie camp? So I did some research, banged out a script, and called up some former students to help. I wanted to make something for myself and not worry about marketing or return-on-investment. Character-centered hard science fiction is pretty cheap to make. Forge is kind of a mish-mash of those films mixed with some nanotech and mind-reading stuff I heard on NPR's Science Friday. I thought, where's the science? I liked Soderberg's take on Solaris and Aronofsky's The Fountain and Duncan Jones' Moon. O'Neill: I had been writing pitches for a producer for the SyFy channel, and all they wanted were monster movies. My first film was a 2 minute stop motion vengeance film. I had a head for visual storytelling because he had started me on movies so early. Dad pulled out his old Super 8 camera and checked out a book on animation. All the sports leagues and summer classes were already rolling. Ten is a tough age to drop into a new town in late July. Then Star Wars came out and sci fi has been my thing ever since. He took me to Jaws, and, even though I was deeply traumatized (in a good way), I wanted to know how the shark worked because I could tell it was fake. This was 1975 so information wasn't easy to come by. He took me to animation festivals, bought books, took me to the library, and checked out 16mm Charlie Chaplin films and old crime films. I was deeply infected with the film virus after that. After the movie was over, he turned to me and said, "Don't tell your mother." It was the ultimate bonding experience. O'Neill: It really began when I was four, and Dad woke me up in the middle of the night because the 1933 King Kong was on TV.
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