The Sovereign

WOW. Principal Photography is done. What a surreal feeling! Less than 6 months ago, Imanah and I were talking about whether or not a crowdfunding campaign would even work. And now we have a movie; the collective efforts of an amazing group of people. And we did it all in JUST 8 DAYS!

We had a full circle moment on our last day, when we got to film our final scenes at Avenida Studios, the same company that owns the Support Our Story platform, where we crowdfunded. Thank you so much to Fanny, Nelson, Sebastian and the entire Avenida family for helping us get this film made!

I am so so proud of our Sovereign family. Believe it or not, we ended up shooting our last two night scenes in the middle of a neighborhood power outage! We even had a miracle intervention from Avenida’s very own Sebastian, who saved the day when our lights died and we thought all was lost. Truly an amazing adventure I will never forget!

I am so grateful for everyone that’s worked on this film. They’ve been so engaged with the work, so collaborative, supportive, respectful and so so talented. We really became a family.

Stay tuned for what’s next, as we get ready to assemble this thing!

We love you all & we can’t wait to share more with you!

Our DP, Djoser has a catch phrase: POW!

And that’s how it feels to have most our film already shot! We only have one day of filming left, for a crucial group of scenes that we’ve been building up to this whole time. I wish you could all be with us on set. We’ve really created a beautiful community and environment! So grateful for everyone!

Let’s bring it home, y’all!

We have close to 50% of our film in the can already! It was an amazing thing to see the team in a state of flow, fully present and having a great time making art together. 4 Days, 1 Location, 40 Pages. Up next we have some key scenes to lock in, in various locations throughout LA County.

Keep it coming! We got this!

Yesterday we got together to rehearse outdoors. As you can see, we had a great time preparing to bring this story to life, to share with you all.

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Wish us well! We couldn’t have gotten to this point without your support :)