Sofa

HEAD CHEF

I was raised and lived in Chapel Hiill for 35 years and consider myself a proud southern boy. In 2009 I picked up my life and moved to Baja California in Mexico. The past 11 years I’ve been writing my next film projects, and catching large yellow fin tuna on mostly calm sunny days (a few hurricanes thrown in for good measure). 2020 brought the re-awakening of my filmmaking desires, consummated with the opening of the Mexican Banzai! production office here in San Jose, the hiring of a creative production team, all to satisfy that deep, deep creative thirst that became dry from living here in the Baja desert. In my younger years I was a world class Tae Kwon Do fighter; the methodical and at times painful preparation building up to “leaving it all on the mat” approach, regardless of outcome, continues to define my daily routine, so nicely put in the title of one my favorite movies “You Can’t take it with you!”. I am happiest when running at a frenetic pace. I believe that storms of activity are the mother of creative and unexpected solutions and that the greatest indignity to the human spirit is boredom.