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ContributedA promotional picture is shown from the movie, Shudderbugs, which is filming in Schoharie County.Â
A Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School graduate came home to escape the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring and turned it into an opportunity to pursue her dreams in filmmaking.Â
Johanna Putnam, a 1999 CRCS graduate, and her boyfriend, Brennan Brooks, left their Park Slope, Brooklyn, apartment when the pandemic began and moved to Warnerville to stay with her parents in her childhood home.Â
Putnam, an actress, writer and director, and Brooks, an assistant director in commercials, decided if they were going to spend the year isolated and with a lot of down time, they should pursue their dream of making a movie together.Â