Leadership | My journey into film

24 July, 2018

The Plan.

So I went on a veterans retreat over the weekend. it gave me break from everything and time to breathe. I got clear my head and relax. So here is what I come up with as far as the plans for as our work and the production company: In the next 30 day we will become a LLC and do all the legal things we need to do. We are going to start our crowdfunding campaign in about 40 days. The next 2 months I am doing all the research for my feature film, then I am going away for 10 or 14 days to write the film. In 3 months we will shoot Dumbsaints. This gives me enough time to do director and acting prep. I also need to loose a little weight and build up in order to play Kerouac.

What I need: a Unit Production Manager. I am wearing to many hats and UPM can’t be one of them. I just don’t have the time. Also we are still looking for a woman to join our production company. I want women to be involved. So if you are in the Tampa Bay area and you want to join a serious production company is me up. One of my main goals is to bring women into film business. They are woefully under represented. That had to change. So if you are a producer or director/ producer contact me. Help us create an amazing film company.

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4 June, 2014

You’re going to fail. Deal with it.

YOU ARE GOING TO FAIL!!!!!!

Yes, you are going to fail. And fail hard. I am going to fail, and fail hard. I am probably failing at grammar right now. It is what you and I do with that failure is what is the difference between successful people and those who never rise above. I have failed numerous times, yet here I am still working and moving forward. I have learned from those failures and make the best out of them.

If your parents never let you failed as a child they truly cheated you out of the best lesson they could given you. If you are reading this, and you are reading and have kids, let them fail and fail hard. Then turn around teach them that it it ok to fail. Teach them to get right back up, learn from their mistakes and try again but even harder. This, besides manners, is the greatest gifts you can give.

Here is the truth, I am a shitty ass artist. At least in my mind. Yet I am going back to making art once again. Hopefully I dig some of my work and maybe someone else will enjoy it, or at the very least, lie to me. Yet I try and learn. One day I hope to make pieces that I will approve of and think it is good. As a filmmaker I have made numerous mistakes, but difference is I have learned from them, and it has made me a better filmmaker. I will fail again and again, and each time take that failure and grow.

Fail and fail hard. Then learn from it and go at it again.

always try