Millennials

The website for Ray Hafner’s movie project says Two Kids, A Camera, A Million Voices. Hafner and Derek Franzese are producing a documentary they will digitally shoot this summer. The documentary focuses on what Hafner called “my generation.”
Millennials, the film’s working title and the academic name of the current generation, will drive across America with a Canon XL2 seeking the answer of what makes today’s kid tick, tock or click.
Speaking with Hafter at a local coffee house he indicated in one of his college textbooks a list of birth years that group people together regardless of their political views or value systems. To start with the Millennials (1982 to the present), and go backwards a hundred years we would encounter Gen X’ers (1961-1981), Baby Boomers (1943-1960), The Silent Generation (1925-1942), the G.I. Generation (1901-1924), and the Lost Generation (1883-1900).
“One generation does drugs for pleasure, another generation does drugs to study,” noted Hafner adding “A kid today doesn’t consider oral sex as sex.”
Hafner has spread the word via their website as well as sites that cater to millennial style thinking like Facebook . Franzese attends UT and was in John Pierson’s film class. One class project was to follow the progress of the film Cavite, a film also shot digitally. “They sold the camera after they shot it to buy the computer to edit it on. Making a movie like this is such a millennial thing to do,” said Hafner.