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Third-year film student Daniel Apodaca is working as the director of photography on an independent short film called&quot;Kingdom of Bliss,“ which tells the story of a heroin addict struggling with addiction. (Andrew Arfin/Daily Bruin)

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Collecting Creatives: Film student Daniel Apodaca finds collaboration key to visual storytelling

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Daniel Apodaca’s first brush with filmmaking involved filming his friends jumping over tennis nets and gliding down handrails on their skateboards. Growing up as a teenager in East Los Angeles, the third-year film student watched online tutorials to learn how to shoot and edit his skate videos.

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Collecting Creatives: Film student Daniel Apodaca finds collaboration key to visual storytelling

By Linda Xu

April 26, 2017 10:00 a.m.