that ain't no ai

yeah no that's true At all.

No way.

Yeah.

I was like, I just love Elijah Fox.

So when I, you know, I had this film, I was like, oh, my God, I have to get him for it.

You know, it was really, you know, and it was what really set it off was the year before when I went to go scout.

yeah

What made you decide on this story for your debut feature?

It was always in, at least the idea of filming in Haiti was always in my composition notebook that I wrote when I decided to make filmmaking my career path.

And I think when I went back to that composition notebook, I was like, okay, this is what I need right now.

This is the type of risk I need to take.

This is very important to me to reconnect with my roots.

But also derived from not being able to get another feature that I wanted to get made at the time.

So this was kind of me trying to show My skill set and what I could do, and it became way more of a personal experience.

But what is, what in your mind is like a great experience on labs and fellowships? And what is like a not great experience? And do you think they play a role in giving people the confidence to be able to, like you say, know themselves? I think...