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You?re in town to screen a film you?ve been working on. What can you tell us about it?
A fan of mine, now a friend, by the name of Kenneth Price was a student at UNC Greensboro getting his Masters in Film. He approached me about a project to follow me around for a year with a camera. After I saw the first cut I said, “This is gonna get you way more than your Master’s thesis.” It?s taken us everywhere. I?m going to give a lecture at Harvard on November 18th. I don?t even have a college degree [Laughs]. Crazy.
How did being followed around by a camera effect your creative process?
It didn?t. Sometimes I forgot Kenneth was there. It?s different when it?s a small camera verses a big ass movie camera. I was just doing my thing; I wasn?t bothered at all.
What can viewers expect from The Wonder Year?
The one thing I?ve been getting from everybody is inspiration. “I?m inspired. I?m inspired to do what I really want to do in my life. I feel like I can take over the whole world. If you did that I know I can do anything I want to.” That?s the biggest thing that everybody gets from it because it?s a human film, not a hip-hop film. I?ve been places and shown it to 60-year-old white women who don?t know sh*t about hip-hop. There?s a human side to it. The movie?s about having a passion for something and going for it.
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