KREWS Director's Notes
Audiences are drawn to films not just to escape and be entertained. They come to learn about themselves. Kids may experience two hours of a life they haven't lived yet, and some come to live the lives they've missed. It's a personal transporting experience unique only to film.
The nature of man and the human condition is the core to any plot and character created in a film. Whether telling the story of a historical figure, fictional, or a man of the future, a filmmaker needs to tap into the honesty of human nature in order to develop a true character.
When making KREWS, I wanted to create a healthy sense of ambiguity in both the narrative and characters. The protagonist and antagonist in films are often cookie-cutter, paint by number clichés and stereotypes. And audiences tap into that formulaic style, often figuring out how the story ends before it unfolds, eliminating any element of surprise.
In KREWS, the inherent characteristics of the lead characters are laced with duplicity, helping to create a multi-dimensional consciousness, cohesively connecting the characters to their environment so that the element of surprise is ever present and possible.
Betrayal, misperception and greed are the underlying themes in KREWS, creating an atmosphere that is charged with fear, distrust and desperation. True to inner-city life, KREWS examines the conditions of contemporary class struggles when two opposing class structures collide.
