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That’s why she’s setting and filming her upcoming vampire web series “You Only Die Once”—inspired by a short film she shot of the same name—right here in our neighborhood. Most popular vampire films and television shows take place in California, in small towns, or even in Manhattan, she said, but “Queens, especially Astoria, is just so gothic and so meant for horror; it’s amazing to me that it’s not featured more.” The horror genre has always been a big part of Goodman’s life. “Not a lot of girls my age were writing these horror screenplays and short stories,” she said. She now uses that childhood interest to make her own work. “I thought, why not use two things that make me unique—that I am someone in this industry who is from Astoria and my deep understanding of the horror genre—and that’s where I am now.” Goodman’s first short film was a femaledriven horror comedy called “Cori’s First Horror Movie,” which was shot in one day around Halloween of 2015 in her apartment in Astoria. “It got a lot of good reception in terms of people understanding what my voice was, and that was the first time I really delved into filmmaking in that way,” she said. “I think I’ve always been a director; since I was a kid I would do ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches and all that kind of stuff, and weird little comedy things. But this was the first time that I wrote a script that I produced.” She also directed and acted in the short. “I still can’t process how I did all that,” she said. “Now it becomes second-nature, because you get used to where you are on time and having the right people with you on set, but it was a good starting point for I don’t really get this feeling in Manhattan or Brooklyn, but in Astoria, wherever I am, I’m creating stories in my mind, and it’s all inspiring.” OCTOBER 2016 I BOROMAG.COM I 23


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