This paper outlines the artistic research process I followed as I made a short fiction film. It defines the stages that I’ve undertaken as I tried to learn more about filmmaking during my master’s studies in Film and Media at Stockholm University of the Arts. How to write a screenplay? How to dramatize a personal experience? What making a movie entails? How to write a moving story and the impact of storytelling on human beings. Here I share my learning about – and I try to investigate the interplay between – craftmanship, art, theory, conception, industry, and the neuroscience of storytelling.