with a big “?” over my head every time someone would ask me how I became deaf. I’d tell them that I had no idea. The film, which I wrote and plan to direct, is fictional, but I used some of my own real-life experiences while writing the script. I like dark, intense and challenging story. I remember when I was young, in my teen years; I was trying to find myself. We all go through that. Writing and reading books saved me. I used write a lot of dark poems. Sometimes I would have weird dreams about weird stuff. I applied some of the dreams, poems and life experience in my films. I do not remember the fall. Maybe that’s why I had those haunting and bizarre dreams. I am not afraid to push the boundary in my writings or my film. I like to evoke or invoke emotions and thought-provoke stories. I also like Hallmark-lik inspirational stories. I’d like to see how it could transform from paper to the screen. That’s what I did with The
Shattered Mind. Of course the rest of it is embellished or exaggerated. That’s the nature of being a creative writer; you let your mind be as imaginative and innovative as possible. The Shattered Mind has won 8 awards; best featurette, best supporting actress, best sound, best narrative short, best psychological drama, audience award, diversity and inclusion award, (dis)ability award film, and nominated for best actress and best drama. The accolades won’t stop coming! It has been an amazing year for our team. I hope a distributor will pick it up so we can expand it. A lot of scenes, about 65%, were taken out to make the film for $40,000. This is a $2 million budget film due to high end visual effects. It’s not over for The Shattered Mind. What is your preparation with actors in terms of rehearsal? Before we did the actual production, we