Katie Van Fleet
Age: 24
Short film: "Second Life"

Nantucketer Alison Van Fleet, subject of her sister's short film, "Second Life"

Thurs., 5 p.m., Bennett Hall, $25
Sat., 9:30 a.m., Bennett Hall, $25
Precedes "Autism Everyday"
Imade it as my thesis film for my master's degree in broadcast design at Savannah College of Art and Design where I took an interest in editing and finished in May of 2006. The film is about a 19-year-old woman, who is my sister Alison, who lives on Nantucket, and the liver transplant that she had when she was 19 years old. Story of why she had to have a transplant. We go through interviews with her parents, doctors and friends, and she tells her own story. It changed her life. And I wanted to show that in the film, how it changed her perspective on love, existence and hope. I also wanted to make the film to exercise my editing skills.

What does being included in the

festival mean to you?

I had no idea it would make it this far. … It validates that my work is good, that people want to watch it, and that's exciting to me.

What do you hope to get out of

its screening?

I'm very excited to get my name out there and also for people to watch this story, this woman who had to go through this. Hopefully, after people watch it, they will give more thought to organ donation and how important it is for some people. This is the third festival it's been in, but this is actually the first festival I'm attending. While I'm at the festival, I'd like to be able to meet other filmmakers, producers, directors. It will be kind of a door to the rest of the filmmaking world. Hopefully it will give me some contacts.