The journey's what matters the most.

Happy Holidays is the coming of age story of Clarissa Ryder, a young artist, who gets involved in a love triangle and realizes it's not a question of which guy she should be with, but if she can pursue her real love, painting, can she be with either?

How far would you go to make your dream come true? This is a question I asked myself every single day while making “Happy Holidays” For whatever crazy reason I decided to go broke at age 19 and make a feature film. Even my school thought it was a ridiculous notion and claimed it was “Too Ambitious”. Despite everyone telling me it was impossible, I decided to make the hugest bet of my life and focus all the time and attention I could into making the film. To be truthful I had no idea what I was doing for most of it. I was so nervous and awestruck the first day of set I forgot to call ‘action.’ But then, there was a great deal to be nervous and awestruck about. There in front of me was Clarissa and Thomas, just how I had envisioned when I wrote them, the set was what I imagined, and I was surrounded by dozens of other crew members willing to give me their free time for ‘Happy Holidays.” At this moment I knew I was doing something right, or absolutely insane (depending on who you talk to). Just like Clarissa’s life, making the film was hard, it was so hard that it nearly fell apart dozens upon dozens of times, but the important thing is, it didn’t. And there is hope in that. If I can ask you to walk away with anything from this film, it would be the understanding that no matter how terrible everything gets, it will only fall apart as long as you let it.