FILMMAKER’S STATEMENT

My wife Erika was fired by her Hollywood manager when he learned she was pregnant with our first child. Erika is an actor and that moment seeded this story with a deep intention to tribute the strength, sacrifice and the unsung nature of Motherhood.

BELIEF is a story of one mother’s journey.

After conceiving the script, Erika and I waited for our children to grow old enough to play the film’s central roles alongside her. I believe the performances have a deeper resonance as a result of this authentic bond. For us, this film isn’t entertainment as much as it is a mission statement for a mixed family blessed with learning challenges.

The challenge we faced in telling this story was distilling down all of the key contributing elements a mother gives her child. The language we developed to tell this story seeds a bunch of (seemingly) disparate and unexplained moments early in the film and as the story progresses, lets the viewer connect the dots on all the decisions that shaped her son, Lennox.

This approach paralleled my own mother’s lessons gathered from seemingly innocuous moments. Including moment’s where my own mother flat out rejected the prevailing voice of the time.

This film elevates, against all odds, the transcendent power of a mother’s unyielding BELIEF.