THE SUNNY SIDE OF TEXAS
For my grandfather Sunny’s 84th birthday, my family took a trip to Texas to visit his family and where he grew up in Alice, Beeville, and Corpus Christi. This was a milestone birthday because he is the oldest living man on his side of the family, so we wanted to turn this trip into a celebration of his life. Through his eyes, we got to experience his childhood homes, schools, neighborhood hangouts, and local cemeteries where his family is buried. To close out the trip we had a big family reunion/birthday party for Sunny where we ate, drank, and danced the night away, he couldn’t have been happier.
To capture this trip, my cousins and I decided to create a documentary to feature Sunny’s life through the lens of this visit to Texas. We shot footage and recorded interviews for five days and compiled the content into a chronological story of Sunny’s life that takes the audience throughout Sunny’s time growing up in Texas.
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