FOLLOW THE SONS

FILMMAKING ALUMS ’ DOCUMENTARY ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND FATHERS MAKES FESTIVAL CIRCUIT

By Risa Barisch

In Sam Spencer’s senior year as a filmmaking student at Mason Gross School of the Arts in fall 2020, he found himself stuck.

“I was kind of feeling uninspired that year,” Spencer says. “I had made so much work there that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to finish.”

Fall melted into spring and Spencer still had no idea what to do for his thesis, so he sought the advice of his professor, Danielle Lessovitz, who encouraged him to explore a “scary” topic that made him “really