What inspired you to make this film?

E.Lynn Harris’ book Invisible Life.
I initially wrote the film as a book back in 1997 then did nothing with it. I was working to survive, I worked in pharmaceuticals, I did some photography, and worked at a photography studio…I thought why not do what I love-film? So I changed the book and wrote a screenplay.

Is it autobiographical?
No. There is part of me in each character, the men the woman, father and son.












How did you fund the film?
On a broken shoestring budget (laughs).  It came out of my pocket and was an organic experience. We only shot on the weekends, summer weekends and couldn’t afford to pay anyone; the actors still had their own work during the week. It was long hours and out of my pocket.

Tell me about the film?
Finding Me is a journey we all go through. It’s a universal theme, whether you’re black white, gay straight, old or young. People think it’s a gay film; it’s not. I didn’t write it that way, I don’t live that way.
It’s a film that has to do with the journey of finding oneself. It just has gay, bi and hetero characters in it.  I’m very connected to women characters, my best friend is a lesbian and the closest friends in my life are females. I needed that to be in the story.

Anything to share with our community?
I would like the lesbian / gay separate division wiped away. Of course there has to be a forum for black lesbians from a woman perspective. Women love deeply (smiles nodding his head) I’m still trying to understand it yuh know? Lesbians have a rich story that needs to be told; told in engaging ways as opposed to separateness and isolation from the audience.