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