Adam Bhala Lough
3-time Sundance alum, Spirit Award nominated writer/director and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s Top 25 Independent Filmmakers to Watch, Adam Bhala Lough has dedicated his career to telling great stories, collaborating with great people and creating authentic work that connects particularly to young audiences worldwide.
Inspiring words landed in my inbox today…


On 8/27/12 4:00 PM, “TJ Webb” <…> wrote:

Hi Adam, I have been a fan for a while now. Ever since I caught “Bomb the System” on IFC when I was crashing with my parents trying to sort out my life many many years ago. I am now a filmmaker currently working on a documentary. I guess I wanted to give you a shout out to say thanks for inspiring me early on to seek what I wanted to make. It was years later I found out that you were also making documentaries. It was always my goal to be able to go back and forth as a filmmaker between fictional films and documentaries. I think we will finish this current documentary by the end of the year and start submitting to the festivals. I am excited to be pursuing my dreams, or really pursuing my heart is what I should say. “Bomb the System” is a film that always stuck with me. I have literally made all my friends watch it over the years. That is a movie I feel like is mine as a viewer…just with how I connected to it and how it affected me as an artist and encouraged me to want to direct and do cinematography. At the time I was more on the graffiti and artist side of things, but I was really daydreaming all day about filmmaking trying to get to a film school, but could not find the support. Finally technology is to a point where I can go grab a DSLR and film in HD, make the documentaries I have been planning. It feels nice. I will end this here. I saw your message on your site about saying hello and thought man,..I would love to tell this dude how much his work has meant to me. Even today I was re-watching the Carter doc. It has this dream like quality that I have been trying to explain to my current documentary subject, but I am going to make him watch it tomorrow. It is the perfect example to me of a creative documentary. I look forward to whatever project of yours comes out next. 

Bless Up

-TJ Webb

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