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The chickens keep playing with it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/4a12c605-cd29-4413-9267-8cbdc1f63ea4/000005100034.jpg Photography - Make it stand out Unbeknownst to me, my E-ZPass wasn’t working for months, so I received over $1,000 in fines when I returned to Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/c4edbfce-22e2-4356-8961-1b884238391f/000023570023.jpg Photography - Make it stand out I asked Julia to look at the camera like she loved me. 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He graduated Summa Cum Laude from NYU with degrees in creative writing and philosophy. He has published articles for the New Yorker and CNN, and received his M.F.A. in film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Adrian has written, directed, and shot films that have screened at top festivals, including SXSW, Atlanta, Miami, Palm Springs, etc., and have been selected as Vimeo ‘Staff Picks’. His thesis short, THE ARTISAN, was the first Cuban film ever featured on ‘Short of The Week’. In 2019, he was selected as a Marcie Bloom Fellow, a Sony Pictures Classics mentoring program designed to introduce up and coming filmmakers to the film industry. Most recently, Adrian was one of eight Miami-based recipients of the Oolite Arts’ grant. The grant helped him finish his most recent short, IN AN ORDERLY FASHION, which is being submitted to festivals and developed into a feature of the same name. Adrian’s currently an adjunct professor in screenwriting at the University of Miami’s film department. https://www.adriancardenas.com/about-native daily 0.75 2024-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/60b8b9dc-f6d3-4173-bd03-4ad0c1d7cfa1/Profile+pic-2.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.adriancardenas.com/photography-1 daily 0.75 2023-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/75ff0321-d533-4a9e-9dd6-17f377380bb4/%23121+The+Stories+We+Tell.jpg Photography - Make it stand out I met Julia outside Villa Manarola, this 100 year-old building surrounded by mango trees. I brought her a Covid test to see whether we were in the clear for our first date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/c4edbfce-22e2-4356-8961-1b884238391f/000023570023.jpg Photography - Make it stand out I asked Julia to look at the camera like she loved me. Sometimes she gets it right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/042b0cdd-02fb-474b-8795-4308eb47c3ef/%2331_Punch-Drunk+Love.jpg Photography - Make it stand out The first film I ever shot was a 4 minute MOS on 16mm for the powerhouse writer/director, Laurel Parmet. The story was set at a Brooklyn park, about a young girl’s first sexual experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/32cb9d6c-aed3-48e3-91ee-4af1710fbb9c/%2350+Dr.+Harry.jpg Photography - Make it stand out My best friend, Dr. Harry, has an ongoing streak of solving Monday NYT crosswords. I think he’s much smarter than that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/c25cf3b5-ee9c-4470-b3b8-055822a1c162/%2385+Mom.jpg Photography - Make it stand out Most everyone thinks I’m my mother’s only child, but five babies died before me, including Yima, a stillborn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/4a12c605-cd29-4413-9267-8cbdc1f63ea4/000005100034.jpg Photography - Make it stand out Unbeknownst to me, my E-ZPass wasn’t working for months, so I received over $1,000 in fines when I returned to Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8fe3bf840b16f5d4f1d50c/b85d0550-7377-407c-a7e6-72ea232549bc/%237_Refelction+on+Dad.jpg Photography - Make it stand out My dad started learning Portuguese at age 65. 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