Hello all! You’re probably wondering why things have been a bit slower at the blog here and I am back to tell you why, as well as do some not shameless selfpromotion. Many of you know that I have been working on a web series called The Vampyr Resistance Corps for the better part of a year and I am so excited finally be revealing the trailer for it! The series debuts Sept 26 and you’ll get new episodes every Wednesday leading to the season finale on Halloween.
I am super thrilled that this project, that I initially pitched in 2014 during my first internship, is finally going to see the light of day. It’s been a crazy intense process but I don’t think I’d have it any other way. I’ve always wanted to work with genre material since my parents bought me a copy of The Exorcist for Christmas, and so getting to tell stories about complicated people with weird monsters is a dream. I have tried to challenge myself in every project and this story about humans in a vampire apocalypse allows me to not just create a visually engaging piece, but a character driven story with strong comments on humanity and family.
Most importantly, The Vampyr Resistance Corps lets me put the focus on characters that more accurately reflect the world I live in and want to see, without being tied to normal tropes. Working in the Film Independent Incubator Lab has been the best thing for this project because as an African-American in the industry, they’ve been incredibly supportive of my desire to bring a diverse characters to the screen. Having the main hero, Lucien, be gay and his relationship with the Tikaani, the tech guru being a strong focus of the story was just as important, if not more, than fun action scenes. Given I actually have an engineering degree, it was wonderful to write a minority character who gets to use science and technology to defeat the monsters. You don’t really get to see Black and LGBT characters leading this kind of post-apocalyptic narrative, but you will now! Anyways I hope you watch the trailer (200 times with the sound on please), but you can also sign up to get exclusive content and win fun prizes at the following link: vrcseries.com/join-the-resistance