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JT Rees

Writer and director of the short film White Room (The White Room), which premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Oct 12, 2026

10:15
Yeah, where do you draw that line between making it fully this is you or this is, like, kinda based on me?
JT ReesGUEST
10:25
When I went into it, I didn't have a clear idea where I was gonna draw that line.
JT ReesGUEST
10:30
It kinda came with as I was writing it, because I would start writing it and I would start basing it off of my, my own experiences, but then new things would just come to my head of putting this in and to, to help make the story stronger or make the character different or stronger.
JT ReesGUEST
10:48
Because, you know, it, it is based off when I lost my sister when I was nine.
JT ReesGUEST
10:53
She was, she was my best friend, and she passed away when I was nine, she was 12.
JT ReesGUEST
10:57
And so the core of it is there, but when it comes to similarities between the, the character of Reece in the film and me, it's more Reece is his own character at that point.
JT ReesGUEST
11:10
There's not tons of...

15 MINS LATER

26:05
Yeah.

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