Nobody's Somebody

Daniel R. Monje (born February 26th, 2005) is a U.S. born film maker that started off his career officially on July 31st, 2019 with the posting of his first real short film titled, “The Clone”. "The Clone" was the finale to a short film trilogy he started on December 31st, 2018. He then later went on to remaster and compile, "The Clone", "My Clones", and "My Clone?", into one short film titled, "The Clone Saga" on August 28th, 2019. This compilation would bring together and better show the overarching story told throughout the trilogy. Daniel R. Monje started out directing by making little videos with the people he had at hand around late 2016. But only in May of 2017 did he find a bit recognition for a solo school video project he made, which began to show people what he was capable of at such a young age. After that his subsequent school video projects were looked forward to in class, whenever the option to make one was available. On the night of December 30th, 2018, he decided to make into reality a little idea he had for an interesting short video. The short video would be filmed and edited that night but was only uploaded to YouTube the following day, on December 31st, 2018. That video was “My Clone?” and became the foundation for the trilogy that started his passion for telling realistic and grim stories. After the release of "The Clone Saga" there was some hiatus but after a few months he returned to YouTube, making more school videos. As time went on though, he further committed to his new YouTube channel and in January 2020 he officially launched social medias on all major platforms. By May one of the student films he made previously, "SHUCKED", actually garnered the attention of another small, but larger, YouTube channel who made a comedic critique video on said student film. It was an overall surreal experience for one of his videos to actually be received and responded to as a part of the overall larger YouTube community. Besides that, the young director also made some real YouTube videos during the school year where he addressed his audience directly and further explained his channel. The whole time however the looming struggle to write his next greatest short film was real and it felt as if no good progress was being made. This was only worsened by the sudden closure of schools and overall isolation that came around March 2020. He had to start from square one, and after months of doing nothing and getting no progress he decided had enough and had to do something about it. So finally, by July 21st, 2020 he had it and officially teased his new greatest short film, "Nobody's Somebody". The production, however, would be a challenge equally as hard as the writing process due to re-shoots being needed and software failing. But now after a whole month of constant work "Nobody's Somebody" finally released on August 21st, 2020, over a year since his previous short film. Now with that all over he has the time to look forward again and ponder, what to do next. He may have proven himself again this instance but only time will tell what he will accomplish next.