Mr. Giannini,
I am currently wrapping up trimester one of year one at UNCSA, the school which you of course founded. Suffice to say I am pleased here, and feel very comfortable. The people here are intelligent, and, most of all interesting. This school is a fertile ground for artists. Of course I love my friends from back home, and always will, but back there, for the most part, people didn't have the deep passion for the arts, especially not my major, cinema. Whereas at home my parents discouraged watching so many films, here the teachers repeatedly insist we do. An arts school is truly an environment to which I belong, so thank you for that.
You fought to establish UNCSA, because it was what you believed in. Since I attend here, I am obligated to have the same drive. I need to fight to make the films I want to make, to stay true to whatever vision I might have, no matter how out-there or uncommercial it may be. You have left a legacy of refusal to compromise, so I'd like to follow in it.
Finally, something else that caught my attention when I read about you. Musically, you have been described as a neo-classicist, taking your influence from composers of the Romantic era, particularly Wagner. I also think it's important to look back in terms of one's art form. While I doubt I'll be neo-classicist, per se, in my filmmaking, I know that it is important to watch the classics. Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford - directors who helped write the cinematic vocabulary. A good artist should think in terms of the past, the present, and the future.
I don't know for sure, what any of the other schools I applied to would be like to attend, but I can safely say I am happy here, and think that UNCSA will nurture me as an artist. So good work, Mr. Giannini.
-Spencer Lucas
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