{"id":36984,"date":"2021-05-24T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=36984"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T21:08:14","slug":"gentle-and-utc-roommate-finding-a-future-in-filmmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/gentle-and-utc-roommate-finding-a-future-in-filmmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle and UTC roommate finding a future in filmmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"751\" data-attachment-id=\"36986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/gentle-and-utc-roommate-finding-a-future-in-filmmaking\/ryan-gentle-21\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,751\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ryan Gentle, Thursday, March 5, 2021.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1614858044&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Ryan Gentle-21&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ryan Gentle-21\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ryan Gentle, Thursday, March 5, 2021.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-1024x641.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-36986\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-580x363.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-610x382.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-250x156.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Ryan-Gentle-21-2976-600x376.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Gentle and his UTC roommate, Austin Quarles, co-founded Physically Awkward Films, an indie, award-winning production company in Nashville.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"36993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/gentle-and-utc-roommate-finding-a-future-in-filmmaking\/galileo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"360,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"galileo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36993\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo-144x200.jpg 144w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/galileo-288x400.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>To watch the trailer for <em>Galileo:<\/em> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/401747283\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/401747283<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"541\" data-attachment-id=\"36992\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/gentle-and-utc-roommate-finding-a-future-in-filmmaking\/agitator\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/agitator.jpg\" 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https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/agitator-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/agitator-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>To watch the trailer for <em>Outside Agitator: The Story of Rev. James Lawson: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/517303106\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/517303106<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since the beginning of his blossoming film career, Ryan Gentle has had a special place in his heart for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus.<\/p>\n<p>Gentle, a 2015 graduate of the UTC Integrated Studies program, originally came to UTC to play for the Mocs basketball team. He also was a biology pre-med major, but everything didn\u2019t click the way he thought it would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was struggling in class because I had no time, and I took probably the hardest major to do while being a student-athlete,\u201d Gentle explained. \u201cA year and a half in, I ended up having three hip surgeries, so that put my competitive basketball career to the side. I remember asking myself, \u2018What do I want to do? Who do I want to be?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He decided to pursue a degree in integrated studies, which allowed him to blend several of his interests, including business and communication, with a passion of his since childhood\u2014film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my brother (Chris) and I were kids, we got out our family-vacation camera during the summers. We had these little Hot Wheels cars and we drew a street intersection on a piece of paper and would record one frame, move the car, record another frame, move it,\u201d Gentle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I was done with basketball, I had a lot more time to look at that. It was really fun to do as a kid and I thought, \u2018What does that look like now?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen Henderson, a lecturer in theater, and Elizabeth Gailey associate professor in communication, were huge supporters in helping Gentle study film. He also had the backing of his roommate, Austin Quarles, who shared the creativity bug. They began making films; their first was a short titled <em>Limerance <\/em>in 2013. Gentle calls it \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we used UTC\u2019s canvas and learned so much from it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was terrible production value, but it was a great learning experience. We filmed a lot of it in South Campus dorm rooms and around some of the buildings around campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gentle and Quarles are now business partners in Physically Awkward Films, an indie, award-winning production company in Nashville. They may be a couple of hours away, but Chattanooga and UTC continue to play huge supporting roles in their work.<\/p>\n<p>Their most-recent work, the science-fiction film <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/401747283\">Galileo<\/a> used the UTC Library\u2019s exterior and its fourth-floor Roth Reading Room<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s funny is I wrote the original draft for <em>Galileo <\/em>during my junior year and we\u2019ve been working on it ever since,\u201d Gentle said. \u201cSo the groundwork was laid here in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film recently was invited to numerous 2021 film festivals around the country, including ones in Boston, Miami and Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was weird and very humbling to get invited to these festivals,\u201d Gentle said.<\/p>\n<p>Physically Awkward Films currently is working on a feature-length documentary called <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/517303106\">Outside Agitator: The Story of Rev. James Lawson<\/a>, the story of the activist, teacher and Civil Rights Movement tactician of nonviolence.<\/p>\n<p>The production company also does promotional, commercial and narrative work for local companies around town, including the Chattanooga Tourism Co., River Street Architecture and the Chattanooga Symphony &amp; Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the variety of all the projects, UTC is never too far away, Gentle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has taken several years to get on my feet, but perseverance, continual experiential learning and a belief in myself\u2014and a strong circle around me\u2014helped me get to where I am today,\u201d Gentle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking back, I met my best friend and business partner at UTC. I met my girlfriend at UTC. And we filmed our first short on UTCs campus. To have worked there and to see how the school changed over the last 10 years\u2014and how my life changed over those 10 years\u2014UTC has been an integral part of how my life has turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this story originally appeared in the<\/em> <em>Chancellor\u2019s 2021 Annual Report to the UC Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair&#8217;s first feature-length film  \u2014 released through their Phyically Awkward Films \u2014 is science fiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/gentle-and-utc-roommate-finding-a-future-in-filmmaking\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1493,"featured_media":37103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122313,61,122488,64,661],"tags":[8296,117240,117239],"class_list":{"0":"post-36984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","8":"category-experiential-learning","9":"category-integrated-studies","10":"category-news","11":"category-students","12":"tag-bachelor-of-integrated-studies","13":"tag-physically-awkward-films","14":"tag-ryan-gentle","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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