Cat Gonzales
Lantern Staff
Meet Micah Streeter, a junior from Rose Hill High School and a full-time student at Butler. He is also the editor of the newspaper for Rose Hill, and he produces his own movies and short films. In addition, he also writes poetry and music, but filmmaking is what he aspires to do.
“It is really something that I have always ever wanted to do,” Streeter said. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a film director, and then for a little {while}, a writer for a year just an author or screen writer and then back to film director. I usually describe it from a quote from my favorite movie from The Red Shoes. It is about a ballerina and someone says, ‘Why do you want to dance?’ And she replies, ‘Why do you want to breathe?’. The guy says, ‘I don’t know, but I must.’ That’s how I usually describe it.”
Streeter is involved in the journalism program. He helps with the school newspaper by writing and making the decisions that affect the newspaper.
“We do a full, every two weeks, news show,” Streeter said. “We basically go out, and it is like an actual news show. We want to be the news outlet for Rose Hill and online for the area. We also play on T.V. on the local channels in Rose Hill through Channel 7. We take this really seriously and same thing with the newspaper.”
While making the film, Night, there have been many emotions and feelings to what it is based on.
“It was an emotional horror film,” Streeter said. “It basically came out of my feelings on what I was mostly scared of and what horrified me most which is not showing emotion. Keeping it all in, not saying what needs to be said, not saying ‘I love you’ or ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘I forgive you’ and that’s what really scares me because as humans, we need each other, and we can’t survive without love, so to speak.”
The film “Night” will be previewed by many in Rose Hill and the showing will appear in Rose Hill in the next couple of months during 2018. The trailer for Night can be found on Youtube.
“Making movies really brings people together,” Streeter said. “We really became a family and having gone through that experience with making Night. We pass by each other in the hall, {and} we are like war buddies. No one knows what we have been through because no one else has seen it yet.”
