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Who Do You Like? A Filmmaker Revisits the Notes He Got in 6th Grade

Alex Mallis got a lot of notes from girls back in the day, so he decided to bring them to life as a short video, The Last Colorful Note. Alternately funny, awkward, and ridiculous, the quotes are “95% verbatim.”

A series of cheerful notes from middle school quickly turn sour.

Directed by Alex Mallis

Written by Brittany, Jess, and Katie Jane
As read by Emily, Desiree, and Polly
Camera by Keith Miller
Color by Begoña Colomar

Official Selection of the 2012 Northside Film Festival

Alex,

Hi, whats up? Brittany told me that you said you don’t want me to flirt with you. And for me to get over you. I don’t even like you anymore. I did like you up until Friday then I just decided I didn’t like you that much. Even when I did like you I guess I didn’t like you that much or else I would have asked you out, don’t you think?

But anyways who are you going trick or treating with this year?

Your FRIEND,
Jess

Verbatim transcription from a note I kept.  Circa 1998.