In the Beginning...

At times I find myself looking back on how I got caught up in this. It was really a long process to get to where we are now. But here it is as I remember it...

Back when I was in the 6th grade, I met Blake. We became friends by shear coincidence. Shane and I had a class that we had to attend prior to the school year for study skills or some stupid crap like that. When we got to the classroom, being the immature little people we were, we checked who was set be in the desks around us. Quickly Shane and I located an individual that we were positive we did not want to sit next to. So we quickly switched the name tags around with a random one from another row. That random one was Blake.

Blake, Shane, and I hung out together all through middle school. At one point in there Blake invited me over to his house in Argyle, TX. We rented a movie that night, Goldeneye. For some reason watching that movie sparked a small interest in me. The entire next day i talked with Blake about how much fun it would be to make a movie just for fun. Blake, interestingly enough was already into movies and had made a few home videos of his own at this point. I left his house with that desire to make a movie still burning.

Years later, we came out with our first movie idea, Hunter. It was a thriller movie about a strange creature that killed kids. When it was first shown to me I was very impressed and began to get more and more involved. We had one problem during those days. We could always start a script, but for some reason we would hit page 20 at be stuck. Many other film ideas came forward and some were developed, others were not and we floated along for a while.

When we were Juniors in high school it was then very apparent that this is what we wanted to do. Every get together we had a camera with us we would always try to film something. Blake came to a party we had with the beginning of a movie called Gravediggers. We had been talking about this idea for quite some time and finally we had the beginnings of a script. While I was reading over it, Will, then a sophomore that very few of us really knew, came up and started asking questions. I quickly answered them, almost trying to avoid them and the party continued.
The next day, I went over to Blake's house and he sat me down at his computer and had me read an email that he had gotten from Will. I read through it and was dumbstruck. It blew me away and it was only two pages long with two characters. From this we built the two main characters for Cleaners.

Since those days more and more great people have come together in the common joy of film making. Shane, Chase, Ty, Richard, and many other incredible assets.