A hobby that turned into a job has now brought some hardware to Roy Mazzagate of Orange. Mazzagate, owner of RM3 Productions, has done some incredible wedding videos and other projects so he decided to try his luck and enter a mini-film he made into the Christian Film Festival. He was honored to win several awards including Best Mini-film for June 2018 for the film titled, “Waiting For You” which features his daughter Emily.
The film is described as, “When the tragedy of a miscarriage, still birth, SIDS, or other infant passing occurs, it is devastating. But she still has a voice. And she has something to say to the parent she never had the chance to know.”
Mazzagate told KOGT how the film came about, “We miscarried several years ago and a few years after that, a friend delivered a still birth baby. As I pondered on what we had been through and what my friend and her family had been through, that’s when the Lord gave me this idea of letting the child, from heaven, comfort the parents. Being such a delicate subject, I spent a long time praying about it and thinking about exactly what angle I should take with it.”
He continued, “I kept picturing a young girl walking through a field of flowers while you hear a voice-over of her speaking. Then came the task of “what would she say?” I wrote a draft and nervously let my wife and the friend who had the still birth baby read it. They both gave it their ok. After I polished up, I was ready to film it. But autumn had just started and I certainly couldn’t depict heaven with dead leaves and trees so I patiently waited until spring. It was such a blessing to have my daughter, who also did the voice-over, play the key-cast in the film.”
Mazzagate said he recently got word that the Annual FAM Fest International will be coming up soon and he hopes to compete there. You can watch “Waiting For You” by clicking here.
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