Dr. Dinosaur himself, who in kindergarten travelled around New Brunswick teaching elementary kids about dinosaurs with a giant mural he had drawn and coloured, had always been a creative person.

During his grade six 'graduation' Aaron won the award for creative writing, beating out 100 other kids in his grade and his authorial nemesis Kevin Johnson; a feat Aaron still brags about to this day.

It wasn't until two summers later that a single phone call from his once rival would change his life forever. Kevin, an 'experienced ' backyard filmmaker asked Aaron if he would come over to help him and a friend shoot a movie with his parent's video camera. Aaron begged his mom to let him go. She agreed to drive him over to the house, where he would transform into the character of Kip, in a sci-fi epic about an invading shape shifting alien.

Aaron and Kevin continued to hang out and shoot movies on weekends and after school. Some of their most famous works included "La Secret de Vanille," "When Boyfriends Attack," and "Teen Dating/Breakup."

It wasn't until grade eleven that they thought they could make a serious attempt at shooting a movie. The two friends split the cost of a $600 camcorder and shot their first scripted film; "Anthy: The Hero of Time," a movie about a time travelling superhero who had to stop his nemesis Yuri from altering the timeline of history and causing the apocalypse. "Anthy", and its sequel were a huge success amongst their friends and classmates.

Other short films such as "Poor People," "La Neige en D'euil Deux," and "Second Person Shooter," kept them busy until high school graduation.

Aaron went off to the University of Lethbridge, studying New Media, where he shot several video projects for his various film classes.

The duo didn't make another film until 2007 when they regrouped to write "Subconscious" a feature length psychological thriller about an innocent man framed for murder who was put into a dangerous and experimental new rehabilitation program. Unfortunately, the movie fell through. But from its ashes arose the idea for "Making It," a comedic mockumentary about a group of young filmmakers trying to shoot a terrible film entitled "When Macbeth met Hamlet."

The pilot, directed by Aaron, with a budget of $4000 was shot in February of 2008. It was the first time they had spent the majority of a movie behind the camera, as they recruited drama students from the U of L to act in the film.

"Hoodoo Voodoo" slowly grew from a joke title to a full time endeavour and the duo began to write alongside friends Ryan Hatt and Graham Hirano.

(Writer, Director, Producer)

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