Art Starter: Michelle Dennis

What film do you wish you'd have made?
The Accused

What film do you wish had never been made?
I think Roman Polanski should never have been employed.

What film is your guilty pleasure?
Pitch Perfect

What was the most valuable thing you took away from SAE?
Confidence. SAE taught me great skills, but more importantly they taught me to take risks and to push myself. They gave me the confidence to step onto film sets, and that allows me to continue to learn every day.

What's the biggest challenge about being an associate producer?
The biggest challenge I have faced working on Drown so far has been learning how to utilise crowd-funding effectively. Crowd-funding requires a large social media following and finding the balance between gaining support for your project and over-sharing is very difficult.

Where do you see cinema going in the future?
Forty-eight hours of video content is uploaded to the internet every second. The traditional revenue streams used by films are under a lot of strain from the internet but our thirst for quality video content remains. Films have a unique way of creating emotional responses in audience members, which won't change whether you are watching on films, on a tablet, a TV, a laptop or the big screen.