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Sleep Keep Wake Take was born several years ago as a script for a screenwriting workshop. It flowed out of me so easily that I barely remember the experience of writing it. Casting was even easier. I was in an on-camera acting class at YourAct in Atlanta when I decided to direct a short for the inaugural season of The Womans Angle. Film Project.

Looking around the room during class, I realized that every character in my script was perfectly suited to one of the other actors in that class! That is, every character except for the six-year-old daughter. And when I asked for headshots and resumes, the first one across my desk was the "Paisley" of my dreams!

Unfolding in a twenty-four hour period, Sleep Keep tells the story of an agnostic therapist who has to decide what to teach his daughter about prayer and faith.

Sleep Keep Wake Take will always hold a special place as my directorial debut short. But more than that, it came together through something much bigger than myself and NationsFilm. Watch the short on the NationsFilm MySpace page.

We have several short scripts and two features currently in the early stages of development. They are pretty much on the back burner during 2008 while I attend Vancouver Film School.

Scholarship! Late last winter, I picked up a copy of MovieMaker Magazine. I'm always swinging by a bookstore and picking up something I really don't need. This time, turns out it was the best purchase I've ever made! I saw in its pages an ad for the first VFS/MovieMaker Scholarship. Of course, I'm always seeing ads for this competition or that festival.

Most of the time when I see something like that, the deadline is coming up too quickly or I don't have an appropriate project to submit. This time I had about 60 days to complete the application and the deadline happened to coincide with my Womans Angle deadline. I'd already shot the footage for Sleep Keep and post-production was well underway. The application itself was a lot of writing and required a nauseating amount of introspection, but I finished it the night before the deadline and took it to FedEx.

The next thing I knew Gija, my Admissions Advisor at VFS, was calling to tell me I was in the top 11! She told me I'd hear by the first of June. I didn't. By the time the third rolled around, I told all my friends that I hadn't won. On the fourth, I got the call. I'd actually won! The next day my condo was on the market.

Faith. Faith in God drives and sustains us. Faith in people makes it all worthwhile.

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