Movie Making Throughout the Bay is a filmmaking club of which I was a regular member for about 2 years.
For the first year, I only acted as a volunteer for the club and as a PA/boom op for other directors. I was very ready to direct my own shorts (I had been a videographer and president of a filmmaking club at my university), but I didn't have any equipment yet. Then I befriended a new member who had equipment, but not quite all the confidence yet. So together we made Writer's Block. Soon after, I got the equipment required by the club and I was finally flying solo as a writer/director/editor.
For the next year I participated as a director for 8 of MMTB's flagship event, The Director's Challenge, which works like this:
Club members sign up as either an actor, director, or crew member. We meet at a designated location somewhere around the SF bay area. Directors are assigned a random cast/crew, and everybody gets 6 hours to shoot something (usually I would tell everyone to leave me alone for the first hour so that I could write a proper script) and a month or two to edit it. Then there's a screening (in an actual movie theater, too!) and audiences vote for best short, which most of mine won!
I'm actually really proud of my shorts (except for two), but unfortunately they kinda require the context of the extreme circumstances in which they were made. Understandably, they don't quite compare in quality to a lot of other filmmakers' shorts.
Click the image below to view my favorites: