Filmmaker Statement

As an independent commercial and advertising producer in Los Angeles, I have fostered personal and professional relationships with many skilled entrepreneurs in the media space. "Toast" was a way to galvanize my friends in all the different departments I regularly use for branded work toward a purely artistic goal. All my collaborators found it very refreshing to create something with stylistic latitude that was absent from the agency or client pecking order. It was my desire, that I imparted to my team, that we continued in the same essence as the inception of this idea: listen to the feeling, not the mind. I believe in, and have been chasing, those clear moments of inspiration that surprise oneself. Upon waking one morning, a rush of words came to me and with luck my pen on paper was able to keep up. Rare moments where the brain is seemingly removed and then looking down, after my hand had stopped scribbling, knowing that whatever it was, was natural, unadulterated expression