Your first film always holds a special place in your heart. When Xhezon approached me and told me he's been wanting to make a movie, my heart sunk. I've known I've wanted to be a filmmaker for a while, but now was the time to do what every filmmaker dreads—make a movie.

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He told me he wanted it to be dark, so I set off writing. The script I came up with later became Afraid (2018); however, we experienced a setback when we discovered that the festival we wanted to submit to does not allow mature subject matter.

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Instead of scrapping Afraid, we decided to make two films. That's when What Money Can't Buy came to be. To this day, I still watch it and cringe, but I look back very fondly on my first filmmaking experience.