Hello World

Hey hey! My name is Ethan Zehr. I've been acting and making films since 2018, although I didn't start making more professional looking films until 2021. It's been something I'm passionate about forever. I acted in theater all through middle school and high school, acting in two plays per year except for 8th grade. This all led up to me directing a middle school production when I was a senior in high school.

In 2020, when the lockdown started, everyone who had any interest in acting moved to remote voice acting. I did too, borrowing my sister's microphone. I started auditioning for tons of projects, but my first role was one I simply asked if I could play. It was the lead role in the video game Life of a Yandere Simp, a parody game that released on Steam, December 24th 2020.

As I went into my first year of high school, I started acting in plays again while still auditioning for different voice over roles. At the tail end of 2021, I started an English dub mod for a game called Corpse Party which game me more connections than I ever could have imagined. I met tons of talented voice actors and actors who I continue to work with to this day.

I started making numerous short films starting in 2021. I've been passionate about making films ever since. Last year, I started working with my boyfriend on a series pilot called And They Were Roommate. However, the pilot's plot relied on it being released around Christmas, so we've set it aside and we're now working on an anthology horror series with some of the same actors.

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I've always found media fascinating, which I assume is why I like media production. I want to learn how people can creatively get across information through different forms of media. We immediately think of formal things like the news when we talk about media, but information and agendas can be given to people through other forms of media, like film and television shows. That's what I'm most interested in.

Most of my media comes from films and shows on streaming services like Netflix, but for news information, I just learn it from my parents or see someone talk about it on Instagram or Twitter (I hate the name X). I think these are my go to sources because I've never been actively searching out where the latest fire is. In fact, hearing about that kind of stuff makes me pretty sad. News channels tend to embelish things sometimes so I like to hear about it from people who are actually involved in it, which is why I turn to social media. Like for instance, when I talked to anyone about the writer's strike, people around me seemed to be upset with the writers for it, but when I looked at people in the film industry on Twitter trying to stay strong, it was pretty uplifting.

Ever since AI's become less of a fun little thing to mess around with and more of a quick way to get a big impression, I've noticed it everywhere. As someone in multiple creative fields and who knows tons of people closely that are in creative fields too, I don't like it at all. Besides that, seeing it so much is genuinly concerning. I have a really good eye for it because I've seen it so much, but my parents send me AI pictures all the time that they screenshot from Facebook and they think it's completely real until I break the news to them. It worries me because Facebook is such an easy target considering all the people on there are fairly older and don't have experience discerning AI from reality. Sure, before people were photoshoping their photos and social media had a lot of fake people, but that at least had a beginning point of something real. These AI photos don't have that. They're fabricated by some website where the only effort the poster put in was typing "Disney worker kicking child" (this is an actual AI photo my father sent me). All I can say is I scroll right past AI photos. I don't care for them and I don't want to encourage any of these posters to continue making these awful posts.

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To end this post on a positive note, if you want some filmmaking or acting experience, you should totally contact me because I need all the help I can get with the projects I'm working on!