The Story: To Chase The Heart

Peppermint Village Characters

These are the current characters in the first Peppermint Village story. Since it is a village, a city, as new stories develope, new characters will get introduced. For now, meet the cast....

Behind The Scenes

I've uploaded some photos from my current film project my Peppermint Village series titled "To Chase The Heart." Coming up is a collection of writings on the inspiration, technique, and characters.

Inspiration: "To Chase The Heart"

So many things can be a combined inspiration for our work. With "To Chase The Heart," the first story in my Peppermint Village series, there were several sparks that led me to write this story.

First of all, my interest in music. I think all filmmakers start with a sort of familiarity. Something that is deeply engrained. So, music was key to build a story around. Secondly, my passion for things multicultural. I could not imagine creating a 'world' and not have it blended to reflect how I live, and what I believe.

Which brings the main thrust of the story, as it relates to one of the main characters, Donovan Dane, the classical piano player, who falls into this identity crisis after he meets Parker Vintalli of the band called Xkon, who, with his popularity, causes a joke to be made of "playing classical music." Donovan recalls a time in his life when he was excluded from the 'cool kids.'



Donovan thinks quitting and joining Xkon will make him 'cool again.' He even begins to play basketball, although sports is not his thing.

My premise is that, we are all chasing something. In my next blog, I will examine the relationship between Donovan Dane and his music teacher, Kendall Blair.

Film Blog Coming Together

I am currently working on some new graphics for my film blog layout. The new graphics will include my film projects and stories in the works, as well as those on the drawing board. I want to keep things 'free-flowing' so, I may bounce around from project to project. That's a good way to show how each work is going, and introduce 'what's new.'

Excited and feelin' the creative vibe!

Extreme Makeover-Blog Style

After countless going's back and forth on whether to keep writing personal blogs, the answer finally came. With many past writings, I've got to the point where I want to diverge into writing on films, both mine and other filmmakers I admire. Also the process. For all of you who read my personal thoughts, thank you, hope you weren't too scared. I appreciated your support.

Here, I will post film clips. Motivations behind story and characters. I'm very excited about making this blog known to my fellow citizens who are embracing a state geared toward filmmaking.

All future questions can be directed to the director. Hey. That's me.