A Filmmaker Evolves By Sara Nguyen
Chris Roewe ’10 describes his journey behind the camera in the sports industry When Chris Roewe began filming Chaminade football games and creating highlight reels for Chaminade football players while he was still himself a high school student there, he could not have foreseen that eventually he would end up filming NFL players in his current position as a producer/editor/videographer for the LA Chargers. But the clues to a young person’s future path in life sometimes reveal themselves early, and for Chris, this was undoubtedly true. “Starting in fifth grade, my favorite thing to do with my friends was to make movies. They were definitely some of the most fun times I had growing up,” he says. Raised in Los Angeles by parents in the entertainment industry, Chris doesn’t recall being specifically encouraged to do something entertainmentrelated, but he does acknowledge the possibility that his environment may have had some influence, if only by virtue of who he came in contact with. “In sixth grade we did a school project about the Epic of Gilgamesh where they gave us creative freedom to do whatever we wanted,” he recalls. Chris and a friend decided to film their own version of the story, “with funny, sixth-grade humor, complete with a battle scene. I had never had that much fun doing a school project in my entire life,” he says. The friend’s father? Filmmaker David Lynch. His childhood environment is only one part of the equation, however, and for Chris it truly may not have been the most important part. Because when he thinks back on his earliest experiences making films, Chris mainly remembers the fun he had, and the pride he felt after editing his school project and presenting it to his class. Regarding the Epic of Gilgamesh project, Chris says, “I was never really good at drawing, I played
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