Time Moves Slow
Death is so final, so abrupt, there’s almost nothing you can do to prepare for the loss of someone close to you
My name is James Benton and I was born and bred in the state of Georgia. I moved with my family from Savannah to Atlanta when I was four years old and I have lived in the Atlanta metropolitan area ever since. Originally, I was pursuing a career in the medical world because I both of my parents are physicians. But after attending Emory University and not foreseeing a reasonable path, I transferred to the Savannah College of Art and Design after watching a bunch of documentaries on my break from school. I originally wanted to focus on documentary style filmmaking, but I transitioned to the narrative form after learning about storytellers such as Spike Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, et cetera. My whole family looked at me sideways when I decided to go this route because no one else in my family is in the film or entertainment industry except for a cousin who is a moderately successful photographer. I want to leave a legacy behind as a great storyteller and filmmaker and become philanthropic in my later years and give back to those who gave to me.
Death is so final, so abrupt, there’s almost nothing you can do to prepare for the loss of someone close to you