Freelance filmmaker Hope Hall visited Saint Mary's Tuesday, showing three of her short documentary films and discussing her craft and life. Hall's presentation, "The Craft of Creative Nonfiction Filmmaking," featured her films, "This is for Betsy Hall," "10 Seconds in Our Life" and the "Art of the Motorcycle."

Although Hall focuses on creating documentaries she said that a line could not be drawn between what is considered fiction and what is nonfiction. According to Hall, all films are subjective.

"You can't ever really get anything [that is] real when the camera is there," Hall said.

Hall began her professional film career at VH1, working on the one-hour "Behind the Music" segments but found that she did not enjoy this.

"It was disastrous for me to work in a place where no one cared about what they were making and were just following a formula," Hall said.

Hall's most recognized work is the short film "This is for Betsy Hall," which received Honorable Mentions at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is about Hall's biological mother's struggle with anorexia and bulimia. The film gives only a glimpse of the painful impact that her mother's diseases has had on her family and daughter, which she abandoned and how this has affected the daughter and family she left behind years before.

Hall is based in New York City and has worked with the Guggenheim Museum and MTV on recent projects.

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