Where You Burn It is a senior thesis student film being made by a crew at Chapman University. The film is a story of heartbreak, but more importantly it is a story about love. The film is inspired by the true events from writer/director Nicholas Bradford's life. It provides a real and raw look at the highest and lowest points of a relationship. The excerpt below provides an insight into the inspiration behind the film:

Love is a strange thing.

We all strive for it. We all want it. It drives so much of what we do. And we seek that deep love; the one you can’t describe. So we try. We must each accept who we are and we say, hopefully somebody will love me. And then you find someone who does. It comes as strongly as you let it. And as that connection grows, so too does the risk of living without it. The “I love you” becomes “I need you”. As anything in life, you can’t go up without coming down.

Where You Burn It is a culmination of memories from my life during a relationship with my first true love that continues to haunt me. I wasn’t a good boyfriend. I did things I don’t like telling people. I was unfaithful, but strangely I was still madly in love with the girl who was too good for me. Our love was the kind of love that is blind. But, this story isn’t about that. The story is more of an exploration of how insincerity can eat away at the consistency of true love, and the sad reality of only truly appreciating someone after they’re gone.

I struggled with our break up. I still do. I want to use that struggle as an opportunity to tell our love story, and how it was thrown away so lightly. My hope for this film is to help people appreciate the good they have, and to not take it for granted; no matter what the outcome. I can’t undo the mistakes I made, but I can still grow by realizing them.

This film is my version of that growth.