Bassculture Islands No 4 | Page 106

Why did you decide to strike on your own? And how is it to be working together with your ex-wife? It’s important that our work to not only entertain but inform, inspire and creates discussion. Much like the best art seems to do. Our work is seasoned with the Caribbean think Well, our working relation- element. Iinnate it’s unavoidable, it’s in our creship is what our former mar- ative process. riage can only hope to be. The move was natural, we So far you have made were getting jobs and needed a company for the checks three short films together, Married Peoto be made out to. On your company website it is stated that you aim to produce work with social purpose. What do you want to achieve as a socially committed filmmaker? And how does your Caribbean background play into your work? ple (2010), Pothound (2011) and Captain T&T (2013). Could you tell us more about how these projects were conceived and executed? Married people was above all an experiment in seeing if we can tell a story with as little as possible. Hence it stars Leizelle and I in our former apartment and little more. From there we decided to get a little more adventurous.My writing is influenced by life experiences, so a tragedy involving one of my dogs inspired Pothound and my childhood, Captain T&T. Once you get a clear idea down on paper, the process becomes organic. You begin to see ways of making things work, ways to serve the story without the unlimited problem solving money of Hollywood. You premiered both Pothound and Captain T&T on the video-sharing website Vimeo, from where