To The Moon

DIRECTION

By far my most ambitious project to date, this was a year-long project we worked on throughout our final two years of high school. We started in March of my Junior year and released the full film February of Senior year. This film felt like the culmination of all our previous projects up to this point, as Gavin worked on his first full-length album alongside my first longer-form film. It was as much a documentary about the album itself as it was about our creative relationship and ambitions–a biography about Gavin and an autobiography on myself at the same time. I took much inspiration from the Jeen-Yuhs series about Ye and Logic’s Vinyl Days doc, striving to convey the feeling of some young, ambitious people doing what they love.

CREDITS

Director: Devan Sakaria

Producers: Ravi Sakaria, Rima Sakaria, Neela Sakaria, Christopher LaBounty

DP: Devan Sakaria

AC: Siddharth Patel, Rafael Moore

Editor: Devan Sakaria

Primary subject: Gavin Yang

Supporting subjects: Ali Ojefua, Jaden Hall, Siddharth Patel, Rafael Moore, Kirsten Ruf, Tom Buckelew, Melissa Myser

Project consultants: Chesney Snow, Melissa Myser, Lewis Fenton

Sponsored by The Meeting House

Donors: Dylan Sakaria, Kyler Zhou, Matan Blitz, Harrison Bernardi, Muduo Lin, Chris Cecila