It's May! I just had a birthday! I See You Films has completed two films, Recovery Girl and I See You. Currently I am offering shares in the Westhampton Beach house - just $1,000 for 5 weekends the owners don't mind if you make use of it during the week either. Just arrange things first. Here is the link to photos and info.Http://CintiLaird.ws/Westhampton-share ore-mail: [email protected] affordable get away. Beautiful white sandy beaches...
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Since June 28, 2008 I've been working on my own movies. The first title is I SEE YOU which was written in 2004 inspired by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary. Initially it was a short play written specifically for the Going To The River Festival at Ensemble Studio Theater. If Elizabeth Van Dyke had not called me regarding my short play submission it might not ever have come about. Thank you Liz. It's an educational film about bullying, peer pressure, community and personal responsibility. It features some young talent from Brooklyn and Long Island check out their stories: Http://CintiLaird.wsMy meetup group shot the film. Low to no budget...Oh, yeah, there is a sneak peak here on MySpace - somewhere and also on YouTube.
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During the strike I appeared in Who Do You Love? A gospel musical at the Richmond Shepard Theater 309 East 26th Street at 2nd Avenue Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8pm until the end of March, 2008. It's was a spiritual delight.
I've been writing songs for most of my life but never viewed it as a way to earn a living until I heard one of my songs sped up note for note recorded without permission by a popular group that made mad money with it. By now I've performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Town Hall and Madison Square Garden. Still looking to hook that solo ticket at these great venue which gives me more to work for! :-) I have been a soloist for many years in church and other professional, yet lesser known venues.Like so many others I started singing in church at a very early age - before I went to school. Been singing ever since.With practical parents, I was not allowed to study music or drama as a major at university - (I did get some voice studies in toward a minor.) Pushed to study journalism - and film and television production/direction, my parents didn't understand that getting a job in those fields for a black woman with no connections would be just as difficult as getting an acting job. My advisor at NYU insisted that I double major in acting and film/tv. It was difficult enough to just get through school - with Mother's terminal illness weighting heavy on me. She was my best friend. With 3 females in a family of 6 males, you bet the 3 fems were really tight. Mom made all of our clothes and we dressed similarly - often with the same fabric to individualized patterns. I never knew the term "off the rack" until I came to NYC to attend university.I did all that I could to be the first child in my family to complete a BFA and tried to rush through it before my mother died so that she could appreciate it. Afterall, we had the biggest fight when I said that I'd run away to NYC to become an actress if she wouldn't sign the necessray documents so that I could attend NYU. I'd been accepted at Cornell - that being a hick town was fine with her. But I'd lived in small towns my entire life and was looking forward to something new and exciting. Where the direction of the wind would not be the hottest topic of the day. I graduated - or so I thought I had - but Mom was by now far too ill to travel into the city to see her youngest child receive the diploma that she so desperately wanted me to have, so we sat side by side on her bed and watched the televised graduation ceremony together. She died less than a year later.
