الحمدلله Repost from 🧿@mychivas🧿 • i began writing IIGWTMM (PLANES) two days after a delta airliner dropped jet fuel on three southeast/south central elementary schools more than two years ago. i called cambio (our dp) the next day called susu (production/set designer) the following week and we began filming a month later. no studio funding. no fellowship money. no grant money. just love. a lot of love. and finessing funds from other projects to this one. and a lot of friends and fam and community willing to make something beautiful together. everyone in this film is a first time actor portraying a version of a fictional life they already live in and around the imperial courts projects. this film is dedicated to the five uncles i lost to covid this year and to all the black and brown boys and girls who (like me) grew up under the lax flight path. dedicated to the dreams we had every time we looked up and saw an airplane flying right above us. and the environmental atrocities that these beautiful complicated pieces of sky metal put us through every single day. i’m still that boy today. still looking up. reaching for worlds bigger than the ones i know. premiering at @sundanceorg in january in the narrative shorts program. excited for this directorial journey. the game won’t ever be the same.