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Matthew Garlin
Class Year: 2010 Events around campus are often done through preexisting sports, clubs, and organizations. Once in awhile, people break through the mold and do something different for themselves. And once in awhile, they do something of interest that captures the attention of the college community. Matthew Garlin ’10 is aspiring to do something of great interest, something rarely done on this campus. Garlin is making an independent film. Matthew Garlin, of Beverly, Massachusetts, has run his own small independent production company, which he calls G MAN Companies after his middle school nickname, for a number of years. He and a group of friends have created a small independent film called The Waiting Room, which premiered at Assumption in April. The Waiting Room is a story about a group of strangers with little in common—except they have each been brought to a waiting room under strange circumstances. What those circumstances are the strangers will discover as they converse and experience powerful lessons sharing with each other. Garlin ran his production company for a number of years before attending Assumption. He mostly filmed weddings and anniversaries but tried a few films on the side. None of them met with much success. He kept his hopes up, though, and eventually collaborated with a friend on an idea to shoot a film together in their high school. It was their best idea yet. Unfortunately, they met a brick wall in the form of privacy policy that prevented them from carrying out their plan any further. Fortunately, Assumption has provided an amazing foundation of support for Garlin. Here, he has found a liberal arts community that has greeted his ideas with open arms. He was granted permission to make the film, loaned equipment he had never had access to, trained on the college’s professional editing tools, and was encouraged to premiere his film for the entire college. “Assumption has allowed me to meet people who were as passionate about film as I was, and gave me a new group of amazing actors and actresses to collaborate with to grace the screen.”
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