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Pierce Jackson Esteves first joined the film community in highschool, quickly taking over
the vision mixing and tech producing responsibilities. Adapting to that made other set situations much more palatable, but he eventually found his passion in post-production while studying at Marymount Manhattan College and was invited to be a part of Lambda Pi Eta. While his inspirations were- and still are- music videos and horror movies, he’s found he tends to gravitate towards personal topics regarding relationships, loss, and mental health as he relates to them.

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I use editing to make the invisible, visible; and I use film to challenge existing
perspectives. I’ve always been a storyteller, creating music videos in my head before I even
knew what I was doing. But beyond all, it was James Wan’s movies, specifically The Conjuring,
that inspired me the most. I can narrow it down even further to the clothesline scene being the
exact moment where I wondered how they did it, and eventually what it would be like to be part of a project like that. I’ve always been a creative, whether it be drawing, singing, or taking
pictures; yet I had maintained the belief that I wanted to be a veterinarian when I grew up until
this. Now looking back it just seems fitting, when I was young on Christmas Eve, I saw a
silhouette of reindeer and a sleigh in the sky, grabbed the camera and recorded a news report as the reporter, I would make music videos for family presents on holidays out of what used to be in photo albums; and when I first walked into my high school video production room, it was like a light went on behind my eyes. I work extremely well in the fast paced environment of a set - live or not - it’s the only place I feel I’m moving at a normal pace, and the same can be said for editing; making sense out of chaos.