Senior’s Career in Film and Video Takes Off with an Internship at Southwest Airlines

By Damian Cristodero

By his own admission, Nathan Garduno was terrified.

Here he was, two weeks into his summer internship at Southwest Airlines, and the film and video studies major at George Mason University was alone on assignment.

“I literally had no clue what to expect,” the rising senior said. “I’d never filmed at an airport. I didn’t know the rules, so all the descriptions and stuff they gave me didn’t help at all.”

Not that he needed any as his 1-minute, 32-second video—“Herb From the Curb,” about Herb Watts, the friendly Southwest skycap in San Antonio, which he shot and edited, drew raves.