About the Film
Two interwoven conversations between father and daughter at the pivotal milestones of moving into college at 18, and getting dropped off for her first sleepover at 6. First Timers is about looking back at steps we now romanticize and seeing them for all the fear and excitement they held. First Timers asks us to take little risks, and offers us the comforting reminder that even for the most daunting of tasks - we can handle it, because in some small corner of this lifetime, we’ve been there before.
From the Director | Artistic Intention
I absolutely adore my campers. They’re all about Macy’s age, and the older ones are all, understandably scared and unsure of the future. When I look at them, and all of their wonderful weirdness, I can only feel a loving certainty that their fears are just a sign of their age, and that if they could only stand where I am they’d see- it’s all going to work out. And yet, as I prepare to graduate college and move on to the next chapter of my life, I feel a similar sort of fear. First Timers is as much a reassurance to my kids as it is to me, as it is to my father who’s transitioning to retirement. We’re all bumbling our way into the next chapter and making our own messes of it, and God what a beautiful experience that is. To put it more precisely, I wrote First Timers to remind myself and my loved ones that the scariest changes are what makes life exciting again.
