INDUSTRYINSIDER
MY ROAD TO
AMERICAN BRED
An interview with filmmaker Justin Chambers shoulder to cry on. But mostly I keep positive because I know that success will be that much sweeter for how many times I failed, gotten back up, tried again and achieved it. I mean, anytime you’re learning you’re going to fall, but what matters is that you get back up. The name Crevice Entertainment, was derived from the thought that if you look beneath the surface of any person, opportunity, relationship, or circumstance, you might just find something unexpected. And unexpected moments can change your life if you’re flexible and always expecting the unexpected. That’s exactly what happened when I met Karina Diaz and William Alexander IV. even when you’re acting crazy people have your back. I knew there was something special there. That was 5 years ago… since then Karina has always been there for me in every aspect. I could literally go on and on because her and I have been there since the beginning and we have gone through so many partners of the company, projects, and situations where we have looked at each other and gone “what are we going to do?” It is impossible to do anything in this business alone and achieve success. Karina is the hardest worker that I know, and even if she doesn’t know how to do something she is willing to learn and stretch herself beyond her comfort zone. She doesn’t give up. And there has only been one time that I felt her come close, the car accident of Broken Roads, and even in that moment it was incredible to see her struggle through it and continue on, as she has so many times before. Now she’s serving as first lady of Crevice Entertainment, which only makes sense. Because I think she understands me so well, and has a faith in me that she uses to comfort others, even when some of my decisions may not be understandable at the moment. I have heard her say so many times to people, you may not understand him now, but you will. And that’s a kind of person you want to be a part of your team, a hard worker, determined, and always willing to learn, and has your back whether good or bad. Not to mention Karina has always been that honest ear for me, giving me the freedom to say how I feel without being judged,
I’m just a small town boy with big city dreams. Where I grew up, you played football and that meant you were a star. But unfortunately my body wasn’t built to be hit repeatedly and still function. Plus my active imagination just made the thought of someone charging at me seem like the forceful collision of aTyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. That was for all my Jurassic Park brothers. I’ve had a passion for film since I was 8, maybe 9; it’s been so long I can’t remember now. It was my form of expression and what was going on in this head of mine. To be honest, imaginary became my reality. Was it an easy journey to get where I am today? NO, but come on, is any good achievement in life ever easy? So with that being said, all the heartaches and failed attempts, I don’t look for sympathy, not always anyways, only the failures that hurt really bad; then sometimes I need a
KARINA DIAZ
I still remember the first thing I said to Karina when I met her. We were on the set of a short film I was doing called “Elevator 7”; I had 75 students from the school to work on this film with me, to see who really had aspirations to be great. Now the school only had 250 to 300 students to begin with. So it was one of the biggest student body projects the school had ever seen. Most students had nothing to do but sit around and watch. So I saw Karina sitting there with a friend and out of everyone I walked up to her and said, “hey my dad keeps calling me, can you hold my phone and answer it if he calls again and just tell him what I am doing?” She was like “um okay, sure!” I was so overwhelmed I didn’t even stop to think how crazy that sounded. But to know that
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AZ FILMMAKER
September 2013