In the midst of my week long meetings in Los Angeles during late 2007, I took time to meet with the Actress Isabel Cueva who had just come off the back of appearances in The O.C. and Entourage.
We discussed the various productions that we had worked on individually, and the possibility of helping each other out on future ones.
Prior to her leading role in the feature film North by El Norte, Isabel began developing her own intriguing project about the horrors of the Iraq War.
She asked me to come aboard as a Story Editor and critique the screenplay for PIN that she had written herself over the preceding year.
Towards the end of 2008 I worked on the edit meticulously, and submitted my story notes in return for her offer of crediting me with Special Thanks on the film. One that she decided to rename and make into her debut short as Writer/Director In The Name Of Freedom.
A female American Soldier is held captive and is surprised by a prisoner that changes her life for ever
The Production
With her husband, the Actor Douglas Tait, they were able to raise the funding over the course of several months on schedule for their spring shoot. Filmed entirely in the Santa Clarita Valley and San Fernando Valley in California, the production wrapped in August 2009.
The following month I was invited to the private Industry Screening and Reception at the world renowned Dolby Screening Room in Burbank.
In 2010 In The Name Of Freedom was released and received critical acclaim across the Film Festival circuit.