Is Filmmaking worth moving for as a Puerto Rican?
I was accepted into spring UCF for the Film (BA) Degree but now am unsure.
I live in Puerto Rico, and planned on moving to florida to pursue film making even though I don't know anyone there. For the start of this semester, I decided I'd take a few classes in a university three hours away from my home, the idea behind this being I also want a business degree and figured this would be a good start to begin living on my own. I spent a week there and got extremely homesick crying several times a day, I go back home for the weekends but I'm now realizing I may miss my home more than I anticipated. I'm currently 17, for years I always thoguht I wanted to got to florida, if i recall corretlyy a counsler had originally advised me to got a community college near ucf but I decided it against it because I was hesitant on leaving Puerto Rico. I'm considering other options for film making in Puerto Rico. I'm going to continue going to classes far away though to see if I ever get over the homesickness, and I'm going to take tours to ucf and other colleges here. I did hear somewhere that a film degree doesn't really affect much in the film industry, but I'm not sure if that's relevant to my situation.
Any suggestions?
Posted Aug 29, 2026, 3:05 AM UTC