I don't often get a chance to producer a short film. Typically I don't, but I met a very ambitious young man with a sensibility I saw in myself that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to invest.
I love that young people have vision that doesn't have anger or pain attached to it. They only want to make simple entertainment. And I dig that. Because so much today is about agenda.
This young filmmaker is a throwback to a time when movies didn't have to have a social message (though it has a very small one about PTSD, of sorts). The rest is "making cool things."
Not that I am anywhere near their caliber, but both J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg knew the next generation HAS to be supported if they share this sensibility. And what is that?
To be creative.
When I was in film school people made some really dark movies. It was all about how religion failed them, or parents suck or whatever. No one really was trying to tap into the market that sells. Now, it's not to say they have to. In fact, most young film students are idealist. Sometimes annoyingly so. But the innocence of just a simple story has its merits, and something we sorely lack now.
Even in my own projects where things have to be SO important. It's not.
So "Binary Devils" came across to me as a fun project that is just...fun.
Why not?!
There is no agenda, and it may be that we don't need more "messages." in our visual stories.
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