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From The Director
To be perfectly honest, I have been attempting to flagship MSI Films for almost 10 years now: raising capital, finding talent, writing script after script and doing my absolute best to produce a narrative feature film. I’ve written 6 screenplays in that time, three of which were unable to “get off the ground” as they say in filmmaking. Not enough money for my sports “dramedy”. Talent “dropped out” of my dramatic wedding movie. And I’m still unsure whether I should be the one to direct my version of a Horror screenplay. Then God put FOR PROPHET in my heart and instructed me to tell this story. Plain and Simple.
Suddenly, and for the first time, I was scared to make a film. My faith is personal and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to put it out there. Not in the very real way I would need to. But I truly felt a supernatural push to begin my feature filmmaking career with this film. God found the money to produce the script, God found the perfect actors for the screen and God carried this movie into existence. Not little ol’ me. While I was artistically hesitant, God would make decisions for me and move the production along. At His pace, of course. So after 9 drafts, 3 1/2 years and one pandemic, I’m writing my director’s statement for a promotional site for MSI Films’ feature debut motion picture.
God is good. And FOR PROPHET ain’t bad. Thank God.

























