Senator, You Can Have My Answer Now If You’d Like…

In one of my last classes of film school, we were asked to fill out a quasi-survey describing what we would be doing if we weren’t making movies.  I forgot all the details of the survey, but I do remember my side occupation was ‘Criminal Mastermind.’  My mind is always flowing, and it’s built for […]

What a Week…

I didn’t really make any New Year’s resolutions, but I did start the year with a fire lit under me.  Projects big and small, a lot of traveling I’m looking forward to later in the year; so I had a lot on my plate.  A few weeks in, and I’ve reached one of those ‘calm […]

Wrapping It Up…

2008, that is.  Before I go on my own Christmas break, I’ll drop my own thoughts on the past 12 months. I’ll say this as a heads up; I think this may have been the greatest year of my life to this point.  I haven’t written a whole lot of personal stuff yet; but don’t […]

Planting Seeds…

This has been an obscenely long week for me.  But knock on wood, things are still going pretty well.  I just knocked out the Porkchop sequence of Isn’t She Lovely, and it feels like it could be a nice little short film/trailer for the feature.  That might just be first draft euphoria though; so give […]

What I’m Working On: 2009

2009 is still something of an open book right now.  I have a short I really like, but the economy isn’t helping anybody these days, least of all independent filmmakers. Last summer I outlined my next feature script, Isn’t She Lovely?  It’s as close to a Tyler Perry style film as I’m capable of writing; […]

What I’m Working On: 2008

My 2008 project became malikaziz.com.  Coming up with a style and making it fit into the overall direction I’m going in; deciding on a recurring topic (the 25 MIF); tackling a few thoughtful topics to get this blog off on the right foot. While the ‘voice’ you’re reading is all mine, I had quite a […]