In Chapter 12 of 17 in her 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, filmmaker Tricia Regan traces an unexpected path into a filmmaking career. Her Canarsie, Brooklyn childhood offered no creative outlet connection to filmmaking as it was not understood to be a career option in the family. Through college at Binghamton studying philosophy and literature and NYU graduate school photography, filmmaking remained an unexplored option. Over time, incremental storytelling experiences, including a video art course, shape filmmaking career possibility Regan chooses to pursue.