Kelly Askam (sound mix), Natalie Reinholtz (director of photography) Cody Healy (gaffer)photo Sabrina Alexander It's been a while since I posted so I wanted to talk about what I've learned since wrapping on our shoot. I have to talk to my team about what's going on. I ran into an issue with renting equipment. It …
When They See Us shows how powerful storytelling is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3F9n_smGWY This is Linda Fairstein's least favorite mini series. People, people we are the sameNo we're not the same'Cause we don't know the gameFight the Power by Public Enemy I recently watched the first episode of Ava DuVernay's When They See Us. To be honest I had to pause it in the middle to look up …
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The Jason Mitchell Effect
If you haven’t heard Jason Mitchell was fired from Showtime’s The Chi and Netflix’s film Desperados. We don’t know the specifics of what he’s allegedly done but we do know that whatever it was it got him let go by his reps. He allegedly harassed his co-star, Tiffany Boone on The Chi, it got so bad that she had her fiancé …
Mentor our kids to excellence
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Hidden Brain and Shankar Vedantam was talking about the likely hood of coming from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top is 7% according to a study, don't ask me where the study comes from but a similar study was cited in the Freakonomics …
Color or black and white
Roma reminds me how beautiful black and white can be. I was talking to a potential editor about my project and he asked if it was going to be shot in black and white since it's a film noir. I thought about it and I responded I'm not sure. The most important question is how …
And the winner is…
The Oscars was last night and a lot of people are upset that Green Book won. While the Oscars are very prestigious, it doesn't mean as much as people may think. My favorite moment in the Oscars is Driving Miss Daisy winning over Do the Right Thing. Looking back I think most serious film fans …
It takes 15 minutes to reach your goal
When we set our mind to our goals, we start to notice opportunities.
My hypocrisy on the Jussie thing
I don't know if you've been following the Jussie Smollett saga but it looks like he may have lied about being attacked. I made a joke about it on my Facebook page but this morning I saw a Facebook live post from my casting director talking about kicking people while they're down. After watching it …
Maybe my film is ghetto
I was in Trader Joe's the other day and when I got to the counter the cashier placed my basket on top of a stack of baskets that were flipped over, he looked at me and said "sorry it's ghetto" I told him "it's fine, it just means you're creative." Ghetto rigged has been used …
Finding an audience
Who's going to watch my film, that's the question I had when fumbling around with Facebook ads or boost or whatever the hell it's called. After running a small marketing campaign I realized I could add specific movies to the audience makeup. Then it hit me, my audience is me, plus or minus about five …
