Reaching for the Stars

by Sean Patrick Flaherty
Young Performer and SAG Member

Acting and filmmaking are a passion I can never explain. Films can take you anywhere and everywhere. They can show you highs and lows and make you feel for the main character or make you hate them. Films feed experiences, those experiences feed emotion, and take you to places you never thought possible. Without films we wouldn't be able to go back and feel like children again, to fall in love again and to think again about what you really want and don't want in life. Films are gifts that show what humanity can truly become. It is for that reason that I became an actor and a filmmaker, and if anyone says I am crazy or that I can never make it, they are just dreamers that are too scared to come out and share their true selves. To those people, I say thank you because they are the ones that make the journey harder and much more worth the end goal. They make me realize how I am the one who went for it and reached for the stars. For I make films and experiences for them so that they might reach for their goals.

This item was originally featured February 2012 local newsletter.