My name is Hazi Maleesi.  I am a student here at the Film and TV Connection. I am currently on a film that I am working on called "Burn" and actually how I came across the program was I was surfing through the internet and I was looking for apprenticeship programs in the film industry and I was basically sick and tired of my current job and I have always wanted to get into film. I was a s tock broker for about 4 years. And I basically dropped everything and pursued this career in film which most people I was crazy and I didn’t get much support.  But this is what I wanted to do, I always wanted to write. I love movies and this program seemed like a great program because you start at the bottom and work your way up and learn basically every aspect in film. Whether it be lighting, whether it be camera work, sound, writing, you name it. After I was accepted in the program, the Film Connection hooked me up with a mentor in New York City, who was working on his second feature film called ‘Black Butterflies’. He set me up as an intern for a movie called ‘Burn’.  So it was very exciting. I called up the director of the project Bobby Yan, I spoke to him. He called me down to his set and I started working as his iapprentice, helping with lighting and with sound just getting familiar with being on the set.  And it just so happens that they needed a writer because they were having problems with the screenplay. So I submitted one my shorts as an audition script. The production team read it they loved it. They called me back. Now I am the writer of the movie.

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