The past year has been a roller coaster with the pandemic and losing some people to the virus and other circumstances. The world shut down, but the ideas kept pouring in for what I could do next creatively.

I had a problem though, I had tons of scripts, but no way to produce any of them. While I was satisfied with my own personal production of scripts, it’s just a blueprint on paper with no one to build the foundation.

After completing another feature script, it was getting old not having something produced. Soon I found out how much harder it was to film independently. There was a person who said they would help out but flip-flopped and called it a scam (which was the first time that has ever happened to me).

Most screenwriters and filmmakers would be offended by that, but I was amused. Even with my own confidence in my ability as a storyteller, I realized I had a lot to prove because I am not a high-profile name. Not having the reputation or money to make something happen was starting to get to me.

I kept going until an idea occurred to me thanks to Garin Turner, someone who actually had high-profile work already made. After he showed me it, it gave a great idea of independent and low budget films with him leading the way with production.

All of this wasn’t decided alone though, there was inspiration from a key person who helped shape my mindset. Stephanie Andujar became a person I could truly lean on when it comes to production. She viewed most of my work and gave honest advice that helped me advance.

I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Stephanie Andujar twice. In the first interview, she showed how much she enjoyed doing the show, and the second video interview really had me thinking about what I could possibly do. She discussed her YouTube show titled StephA: One Woman Show and how work was still successfully produced despite the pandemic.

She has no idea how much both interviews have made me think. She made her one woman show using her own cretivity to create a comedy show with storylines for each individual character successfully through YouTube. I was more accustomed to pitching my work to big production companies and letting the chips fall.

When I saw Stephanie make things happen with her own production, it motivated me. This is a person who typically is casted for drama shows and she took it upon herself to make this comedy show happen and watch it grow.

That influenced my philosophy to bring new entertainment using what’s available to create original and compelling storylines. That brings us to today with the movies, my first movie titled Earned Love will be released on September 25th.

There still have been complications with the pandemic, but it has been business as usual. The rewrites and planning actually felt good to get into after stalling for so long. It has been a long and hard journey, but if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

The inspiration for writing the movie came when thinking about an unorthodox love story where it shows them trying to gain the world.

The progress of production has been amazing and we are on the road for a trailer to be released. Stay tuned for more details as we unveil the trailer to Earned Love in three weeks.