Having faith in Finding Faith
3 years in a roll, the writer/director LazRael and I collaborated on 3 Christmas movies. They are A Miracle Before Christmas (2022), Christmas Angel (2023) and Style Me for Christmas (2024), later two produced by John Baldasare. All of them are super well received on BET Network. The clip below is a compilation from the these movies, colored by Mher Gregorian.
After the production of Style me for Christmas in Atlanta, LazRael kindly invited me to work on a different subject this time. In Laz’s words, let’s take this movie magic to another level. In Fall of 2024, we started the production of Finding Faith, again written and directed by Laz and produced by John Baldasare. The project invites a lot of people back from the previous production; therefore, it feels like a family. I started getting involved since table read; it is an interesting journey to see a film developed and come to screen at the end!
Shooting a feature within 20 days was never easy. We steadily follow our plans. One day at a time. As I recall the shoot was also during the heat waves in LA. We have brilliant talents who made the shoot really enjoyable! We have Paula Patton, Keith David, Nadine Velazquez, Loretta Devine, Demetrius Grosse and Stephen Bishop. Also I enjoyed working with Teruhisa Yoshida, a brilliant camera operator, the always gracefully in motion, Ryan Wilson, our Steadicam operator, and finally Eezy Dushene Foster, with whom we worked on 3 movies!
Since we are very disciplined in shooting ratio. We shoot for what we need. It streams line the post production process. The picture was locked in a very determined fashion! Mher the colorist did his magic on grading. And Yes! after the sound mix the movie is heading to another level!
