Dragon hunting, internship meld in film
- OCCC student appears in independent short film.
- Film, "Internship," showing in the deadCENTER film festival.
By David Miller, Staff Writer
Dragon hunting, a student intern and cheap whiskey abound in University of Oklahoma student Kevin Costello’s short film “Internship.”
Costello submitted the film to the deadCENTER film festival in March. Members of the festival’s screening committee chose it.
Costello collaborated on the film with long-time friend and OCCC student Avery Cannon, who portrays Debit, the film’s intern supervisor.
Cannon, who is a broadcast journalism major at OCCC and ultimately wants to work as a disc jockey or radio programmer, said he enjoys filmmaking as well.
“Me and my friend Kevin Costello started when we were freshmen in high school, just randomly making films to make ourselves laugh,” Cannon said.
“Our high school had a film festival during our senior year, and we won first and third place in it, so we thought we might be able to do something with this.”
In “Internship,” an aspiring journalist named Travis has obtained what he believes will be a basic, mind-numbing internship at a local newspaper.
However, he realizes the moment he meets his intern supervisor that this will be no ordinary internship.
“It started as an idea Avery and I had in high school, where two delusional losers would troll fields and parking lots waiting for dragons to show up so they could fight,” Costello said.
Now, as an adult, Costello has transformed the premise of the film to apply to an unobtainable passion and the difficult road one must tread to achieve his or her dreams.
“A lot of times, whatever our lot in life, I think everyone has something they’d rather be doing — some passion that’s going unfulfilled,” Costello said.
“The whole idea of internships is that you work under someone who’s already an established professional, and then ostensibly your goal or hope is to reach the same professional level.”
The film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 8 in the Crystal Room of the Skirvin Hilton at One Park Avenue in Oklahoma City.
Staff Writer David Miller can be reached at StaffWriter3@occc.edu.
