Alumni Film Collaboration
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes that he kept three chairs in his small cabin in the woods: “One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” The image was something screenwriter and ‘99 CA alum, Adam Chanzit, couldn’t resist when brainstorming ways to adapt the story of Walden for the screen, which he recently did with three other alums.
But the story of how these alums came together to create a film on Walden doesn’t begin there. Instead, it starts three years earlier when Alex Harvey, ’99, visited a concert of his longtime friend and CA classmate, Laura Goldhamer ‘02. After seeing the songwriter and musician merge non-stop animation in an inventive live performance, Harvey approached her with an idea.
But the story of how these alums came together to create a film on Walden doesn’t begin there. Instead, it starts three years earlier when Alex Harvey, ’99, visited a concert of his longtime friend and CA classmate, Laura Goldhamer ‘02. After seeing the songwriter and musician merge non-stop animation in an inventive live performance, Harvey approached her with an idea.
“He was very enthusiastic and wanted to collaborate,” says Goldhamer, recalling the encounter. “And so he came up with the idea of doing a radical adaptation of Walden, and it evolved from there.”
It evolved to include Shane Boris ’00 as the producer; Chanzit as the screenwriter; Goldhamer as the composer and animator; and Harvey as the director. Having all met at Colorado Academy, the group had collaborated on different projects separately, but this was the first time they all came together to collaborate on a single project together.
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