Filmmaker Statement

I consider films to be feelings and paintings colliding together in a moving current. Often times, the current is calming and smooth, thus creating a sort of melancholy picture. Other times it’s rough, fast, and intense, resulting in a chaotic journey, sometimes positively and sometimes not. Besides film, a majority of my artistic upbringing was brought through breakdancing, which was a very foreign thing in my family’s way of life and culture, but very familiar to mine. Financial and age restrictions stopped myself and my breakdancing peers from renting dance studios, so we spent most of our times looking for cardboard boxes to drag them along the neighborhood, cut them flat and set them on the concrete floor near the shaded benches of our community park in Orlando, FL to create a studio-like floor feel to breakdance on without obtaining any serious injuries. Then when entering my professional life of acting, filmmaking, and creating stories like The Man With The Cardboard Box,