Gabriel Valentine

Gabriel Valentine participated in YDA while a student at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs.  He is currently 19 and a sophomore at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since he was little, Gabriel has been drawn to film and has had the desire to tell stories. In the summer of 2016 Gabriel was accepted to the Youth Documentary Academy. For his YDA project, Gabriel wanted to investigate fatherhood through the eyes of those who’ve had strong fathers, and through his own eyes: since Gabriel was two, he’s been raised exclusively by one parent, his mother. When he turns the camera on her, the film becomes an intimate testament to parenthood in general as a mother and son come to deeper terms with their own special relationship in the absence of a father.