Christof Putzel

About Christof

• Says he always "thought in pictures."
• Got permission to write his college thesis as a documentary rather than a paper.
• Granted $3,000 to go to Africa and shoot this thesis; wanted to get as far away from his comfort zone as possible.
• Filmed stories of AIDS orphans, knew that what he was capturing was going to move people; came home with tons of footage.
• Says he'd figured out that was what he wanted to do, but he still had no idea how to edit, how to make his footage into a film.
• Since he was so passionate and deliberate about it, ended up having to stay at school for a few extra semesters to finish his work.
• Eventually finished the film; won the Student Emmy, was entered into 60 film festivals.
• Realized that he was good enough that he could actually make a living off of this passion.