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Make Lemonade

By |2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 26th, 2015|A Mother's Journey, Film|0 Comments

AMJ: Script I describe myself as a reluctant producer, because in order to get my work out there I’ve had to pick up the mantle and run with getting things done by myself.  Not something I’d recommend, however, there are times when needs must.  The problem with producing and directing a film is that one ends up being pulled in too many directions.  I guess the lesson learned from writing, producing and directing both of my short films - I did have some help with More Cake - is that I can’t do both jobs real justice and I find that it’s the creative and fun stuff that ends up suffering, because I’m so focussed on making sure the other critical elements are in place. AMJ: Slate I could’ve tried to find another producer when the producer I was working with suddenly quit.  However, I knew [...]

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I Believed

By |2015-08-22T08:59:49+00:00August 22nd, 2015|Poetry, Thoughts|0 Comments

I’m not the greatest poet, in fact I’d go as far to say I don’t read a lot of poetry.   However, I started writing this poem last year in response to an article by New York Times journalist Alessandra Stanley, in which she called Shonda Rimes an angry black woman and Viola Davis  “less classically beautiful.” Viola Davis eloquent response says it all. I’m glad that Shonda Rhimes saw me and said “Why not?” That’s what makes her a visionary. That’s what makes her iconic. I think that beauty is subjective. I’ve heard that statement [less classically beautiful] my entire life. Being a dark-skinned black woman, you heard it from the womb. And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you. Now … it worked when I was younger. It no longer works for me now. It’s about teaching a culture how to treat you. Because [...]

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AMJ: Beginning With the Script

By |2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 22nd, 2015|A Mother's Journey, Film, Thoughts|0 Comments

I’m not one for keeping a diary, so I’m writing the next series of blog pieces on the making of A Mother’s Journey with cracked rose tinted glasses.  Maybe someone else can learn from my mistakes and also from my experience.  Weeks have gone by, so the pain coupled with high anxiety have all but disappeared, leaving me with the feeling that the experience wasn’t as bad as I remember it. The Book   I guess the first question to answer for my fan of one, is why this story/film?  Well my journey into filmmaking started with my desire to see Imagine This on the big screen.  Some might say it’s egotistical of me to want to see my own novel adapted into a film, but I feel it’s a story worth telling as a film.  But then I would say that because I wrote the book.  Anyway to cut [...]

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The Spiked Boulevard of Broken Dreams

By |2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 22nd, 2015|Film, Random|0 Comments

I’ve always loved watching films and I can spend a whole day in front of a TV screen or at the cinema, lost in the land of celluloid.  I’ve also always loved reading and have been known to bring a book to a party.  I know, boring and socially awkward doesn’t even begin to describe my teen years.   That however is a story for another day.  Let’s just say, growing up I had two escapes from my dreary life, books and television.  At school I excelled in the arts subjects and failed woefully at anything else.  Which meant that when it came to choosing a career; doctor, accountant or engineer and anything that required maths or science was scratched off the list my father had compiled.  I think I was thirteen when I decided a career as a newsreader would suffice, that was until I stood in front of my [...]

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