We had the good fortune of connecting with Snyder Derival and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Snyder, why did you decide to pursue a creative path?
I’ve always been a creative, just didn’t know how to express myself creatively. Growing up in a Haitian household where art is not considered a career, but I’ve always been the type if I see everyone going left, I’ll go right cause I enjoy the challenges with being different.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I get to create beautiful imagery, for a living. 24 of them in a second and people get to watch and enjoy them what else is there to say. What sets me apart is I’m always looking for the next creative challenge on set, I have a unique eye for framing, composition, and lighting but I like to take it further every single project in order to make the current better then my last. It was not easy to get to the point am at and I didn’t expected it to be, there would be no fun in that. I’m not even close to where I wanna yet but I have a vision of exactly where that is. One of the biggest lesson I can say that I’ve learned is that the industry is small treat everyone good cause the assistant today could be the executive producer tomorrow, do not burn any bridges cause eventually you’ll need to come back across.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would say my mom, cause even though I was breaking a norm and going into totally uncharted territory. She always supported my decisions and tell me to do what makes me happy.

Website: www.snyderderival.com

Instagram: @snyderderival

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