Beautiful Crisis?

The impending moving day is drawing closer and I am beginning to question more and more if this was the wisest decision. Most expats will tell you that its a healthy fear as long as it doesn't drive you away from actually uprooting yourself and fulfilling the dream within your heart.

I am so privileged to have a safety net and amazing people to help me settle into my new life in California. They have planned trips, taken time off work and introduced me to other people in the film industry who will keep a watchful eye of me. And yet I am still afraid. I dared to put it all on the line and I can only gain a thousandfold.

J R.R. Tolkien said "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities". I have just one single dream in my heart and millions of realities that threaten to derail me.

My best friend always tells me "Life, eh? Always worth staying to see whats round the corner". She knows me too well. If this don't go according to 'plan' I freak and want to run a while but shes been then to hold me hand the entire time. Nothing can happen that I am unequipped to handle. I took a risk and by Jove it will pay off.

My advice to you reader; keep your dream alive at all costs and keep an open heart.

Cher

Final Prep - Packing!

11 Months ago I sat in Dallas Fort Worth Airport conversing with the ex-president of 20th Century Fox (as you do its a natural occurrence). He in so many words dared me to move to Hollywood to make my mark in the industry if I was up for the challenge. Its been difficult and often times I thought I had gone and lost my marbles. Im so much closer to the finish line than when I first began.

The desire to work in the film industry was birthed age 11 when I say in a darkened cinema theatre alone watching the movie 'Drive Me Crazy'. I promised myself at that young age that I would stop at nothing, fiercely determined that I would make movies worth watching one day. There has been detours to that journey, I worked in an art gallery for a year and I decided to study art too. I made my first feature film in 2010 and now Im off to Hollywood to carve out a place of my own.

Follow my journey of life, surfing, love and film production in California.

Welcome aboard and Enjoy the ride!

Paris

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