Female Voices, Female Stories and the Journey Of True Form Films

Yeniffer Behrens is making HER CHOICES- in life and as an artist.  I sat down with  the power couple behind Latin X indie production companyTrueform Films, owned by Mauricio Mendoza and Yeniffer Behrens. to discuss their latest work, "Her Choices."
Jennifer's personal saga of facing trauma, the echoes of her own life experiences resonate deeply within the narrative, bringing to the fore themes of family and resilience. Picture the transformative power of a film born from the very soul of its director, as Jennifer steps confidently into the directorial chair, underlining the significance of amplifying female voices in a landscape often dominated by men.

Get inspired by the duo recounting the uphill battle of bringing "Her Choices" to life, without succumbing to the genres that typically lure investors. Mauricio's producing role came with the empowering leap from managing the spotlight to orchestrating it from behind the scenes. In going after their dreams, we find the relentless pursuit of truth in storytelling, a testament to Mauricio and Yeniffer's enduring commitment to craft content that not only entertains but also educates and inspires, especially within the Latin communities that yearn to see their stories on the silver screen.

In a last push to finish their labor of love, and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign on Seed and Spark, there is a call to arms for listeners to lend their support. (hint, you get a copy of my book at every level over 22 dollars!)

 This episode is more than just a behind-the-scenes glance; it's an inspiring tale of overcoming adversity, celebrating the collective resilience of an indie film crew, and the power of a community coming together to elevate stories that might otherwise remain untold.

 Join us in championing this narrative and become part of the movement that empowers independent filmmaking.

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Speaker 1: 0:04

Welcome to the Heart of Show business. I am your host, alexia Melochi. I believe in great storytelling and that every successful artist has a deep desire to express something from the heart to create a ripple effect in our society. Emotion and entertainment are closely tied together. My guests and I want to give you insider access to how the film, television and music industry works. We will cover Dreams Come True, the Road, life's Travel, journey, beginnings and a lot of insight and inspiration in between. I am a successful film and television entrepreneur who came to America as a teenager to pursue my show business dreams. Are you ready for some unfiltered real talk with entertainment visionaries from all over the world? Then let's roll sound and action.

Speaker 2: 1:00

Here we go, people. Buenos dias. I'm going to speak Spanish a little bit on this very special episode of the Heart of Show business. We're going to be on YouTube on this one and we're also going to be on your favorite podcast player, because you've got to see the lovely faces of these two amazing people that I got to meet, mauricio Mendoza and Jennifer Barron from Trueform Films. They are a hot indie film production company focusing on Latin-centric content but also inspirational stories.

Speaker 2: 1:37

Of course, what we're here to talk about because that's what we're here for we're here to do some fundraising. I'm going to tell you straight up, people, but we're also going to give you some inspiration and great behind the scenes stories of what it's like to be an indie producer. We're going to be talking about this amazing couple, husband and wife, their production company and the latest effort of the lovely and talented Jennifer. By the way, they're both actors. They'll tell you a little bit about themselves, but it's a movie called Her Choices, which I am proud to be a co-producer on and been supporting it on its journey and hopefully selling the heck out of it when it's finished. So welcome to my show, jennifer Mauricio.

Speaker 3: 2:26

Hi, alexia, thank you so much for having us. First, I just want to thank you for showing up for another woman, for being so passionate and always open-hearted, and since the day I met you on Clubhouse, I just heard your voice and I'm like that woman, I need to meet her, and that was in 2020. So here we are, four years later and you have been on my journey to help me tell my story, and for that I am so grateful.

Speaker 2: 3:01

I am so honored to be with the two of you and, for anybody who doesn't know, jennifer has such passion to tell her story, and it is a true story and she'll tell us about why she decided to do it.

Speaker 2: 3:16

But I think it is so important to champion female storyteller and God bless for having such an awesome husband. We're going to have to clone him for myself and for a lot of other women, I think, who want Mauricio in their life, but he's like a real man's man, because man's men are the ones who actually are there to support and uplift women. We all have to talk about the elephant in the room, of course, about the Oscars that are coming up any day now by the time this podcast drops, and the big shout out of somebody like Greta Gervage, who, hello, just directed a movie that made the most money ever for a woman and also, in general, created a cult movement, as if, like movies, direct themselves right. And you know, jennifer is an actress and I think it's so amazing that she decided to have the courage to step onto her calling and be a director. So tell me, jennifer, first of all, what her choices is about, so that we can my listeners can know why you chose to tell the story her choice upon intended and then why you chose to direct it.

Speaker 2: 4:26

It's a two-four. It's a two-four, one question.

Speaker 3: 4:29

It is Well, it's definitely been in my heart for over 20 years to share my story because I think it's important to be able to liberate yourself from shame and from, you know, family secrets and childhood traumas that we all have in our deep in our hearts and not even knowing that. That is, that those things that happen in your young life stop you, give you like almost like this, like cage where you put yourself in and you don't allow yourself to really break through all those limitations. So not to get so too, too, too spiritual and too, you know, philosophical about it. It's basically about an 18-year-old girl that wins. Miss Teen Miami is ready to, you know, go for her dreams of becoming a working actor and her dream is to help her family break that poverty cycle and break from having to make bad choices in to survive, to make money right, which is the drug trafficking in the 80s in Miami, right? I am a daughter of immigrants and they didn't have their legal status here, so it was difficult for them to find work, work that that would actually sustain a family the way they wanted, right, and they were also very enamored with the 80s and Miami Vice, you know lifestyle, the Griseldas of the world and stuff right. However, they always my parents always protected us and sheltered us from that world. It was a double life that they were living. So here's an 18-year-old going to private school, living her best life, saying I am going to be the one who breaks this bad spell. And a week after winning Miss Teen Miami, her parents get incarcerated and she's left alone with her brother and sister. Her brother is 12 years old, her sister is 10 months old, so she becomes Miss Teen Mom a week after winning Miss Teen Miami.

Speaker 3: 6:54

And looking back, like I share in my why video, which you can definitely put the link to the Seed and Spark you guys will get to see my why video why I'm telling my story is I was crowned Miss Teen Miami to take care of my family, because that's what queens do. Queens take care of everyone, right, and they actually sacrificed their freedom to do whatever it is. They want to take care of everyone and make sure that everyone is safe, right. Watching the crown really gave me that deeper understanding of my story, because when I, when, as we watched the crown, was like wow, you can see that inner conflict that she has, that she, you know, gave up her free life with her family and her husband to become queen of a nation Wow, you know. So it's a coming of age story that helps you understand that you have the power to make good choices in your life.

Speaker 3: 8:01

And so I concentrated on the relationship between my mom and I. You know two women, two very strong, beautiful, bad ass women with huge hearts. Because my mom, you know, to this day she's been, she's always been very supportive and she's always done everything for us. And she came from from a limited, limited resources and for her she didn't have other options. She didn't see the other options back in the day, right. So she chose the wrong men, she chose the wrong career and she just chose wrong business, right, and the consequences of that. So what my story is about the aftermath of what happens to the families, the children of parents that choose this life, the Griselda life, the Scarface life, that kind of narcos life. What happens to these innocent bystanders? Right, collateral, the collateral damage. And that's what my story is about the flip side, not so much the business side but the flip side.

Speaker 2: 9:15

I love what you just said because one of the things that I I enjoyed Griselda, and I thought Sophia Vergara was amazing in that role. But and it's interesting because you know, you feel for her, because she had to do the things that she had to do to survive. But one of the things that I see the difference in your story which makes it so compelling, is you're not focusing so much on the stories about the drug dealing and surviving as a woman, because if you look even at Griselda, the effects, the collateral damage of her sons right, you know, having seen that, and then we're seeing that about your character, which is obviously you as making something out of herself, surviving in spite of making certain choices in order to ensure the safety and the future for her little brother and little sister. You know, and, and the end product of that is you and your amazing husband standing in front of me right now, having had your prolific career as actors both of you, I know you also teach actors on how to slay auditions and all of that, and you go through your own journeys and having a company that has produced quite a few films that got distributed, which, granted, they were different in style than this one, but I think we live in a time where storytelling is so important and and inspiration and so important.

Speaker 2: 10:44

So I know that you had quite a struggle. We're not going to lie. Try to raise the money for this, because it's not your narcos type of film, it's not your horror film. How did the two of you as a team, as as owners of this indie production company, make that choice, knowing that it was not going to be an easy road to get the money for this? What was the magic thing that got those first investors and I met a few of them, got blessed them for having been on the road with you that they wanted to say I'm going to support you. This is a story you must tell. Yes, Before.

Speaker 3: 11:26

I'll definitely defer that to my let the producer talk as well. So, but I did not answer why I'm directing the story. So just in a short, short answer is I was actually reaching out to other directors to to direct it and it wasn't until my, my friend, diego Velasco Velasco Velasquez, I always. He's an amazing Venezuelan director of Ground Zero, the La Hora Cero movie. He said Jenny, I am, I'm so busy, I can't, and this is your story. Nobody's going to direct it or tell it better than you. You can do this. Like. He literally texted this to me and he's like I believe that you are the only one who can direct this story. And I'm like he's right Because deep, deep inside, I wanted to, but I was afraid to be like, and, on top of it, I'm going to direct it right Because all everybody, all I'm hearing is we need a name director, we need a name actor, we need a name for do we need a name?

Speaker 3: 12:41

We need a name. I'm like we don't need no names. I got a name. My name is Jennifer Barron's. Jennifer Barron's, jenny, jen, jenny from Miami, jenny from the block. Whatever I have a name, this is me.

Speaker 4: 12:54

Yeah, plus, you know part of what we talk about with our students. Right, it's green lighting yourself. If we don't get ourselves the opportunities, who is going to? And the only way that opportunities are created is when people see it. If they don't see it, we're just talking about it. So for us, that's how we started 12 years ago making films. We were just two actors. You know, she had come off from General Hospital I had.

Speaker 4: 13:20

When we met, I was doing a series that was on Showtime that lasted three years, and we both were unemployed, trying to figure out the next step right and realizing how much not in control of our lives we were because we were actors waiting for that call or that next audition, and we both had felt. We both felt that we had gotten to a point where like, oh, we've, we're here, we've arrived. And also we realized the offers are going to come in. Oh, my agents would come in and go. Oh, I have to reread again what so literally, is that it's? When she said it to me, I thought you know what? Yes, you direct this Absolutely Because I'm going to also be there. So when you're on on on camera, I can also be there as as your eyes. So it's not like I don't know what I'm doing, so we both know what we're doing. Let's just, let's just do it, just really believe. And if we're going to tell our students, green light, green light yourself, then we got to walk the walk. Exactly so that's how it happened and I'm really extremely, not just proud of her, I'm extremely proud of her because watching her go from acting and then jumping to directing and then producing, it's not an easy thing to do and sometimes people forget, right when they're not in it, what it takes to just make a film, just to make a film.

Speaker 4: 14:56

But she is wearing every hat to make this thing happen and she pulls it off like a, like a champ. Like a champ because her passion is to really make a difference. That truly is her passion. This ain't an ego project For us. We don't. We don't. We actually check each other's ego at the door. This is not an ego thing for us.

Speaker 4: 15:21

We really, truly want to make a difference out there for for humanity, for producers, for minority performers, that we have been able to do this because we believe in ourselves. Because we believe in ourselves, we have had every, every obstacle humanly possible put in front of us not only as actors, but as directors, as producers, and I were so blessed that we can work, we can be on this ride together and, and you know, going on this journey, these ups and downs of of of this, and that's how we started producing. So, going back to true form films, it's literally we were. I met Jennifer on a movie. I was already producing, you know, shorts. I was doing web series, music videos. Jennifer was also producing. So when we met, one of the things that connected us right away was creating, creating Latin content. That it's not necessarily about putting Latinos is. We want to be able to make stories that just tell our stories from the Latin.

Speaker 4: 16:34

American, you know you know that that just happens to have Latinos in it. It's not like we're pushing a Latino agenda, we just want to be representing our stories out there, that that exist, so human experience. So, jen and I we took a business, saw a seminar called a passion to profit and we really walked away saying we can do our first film. Let's do this, let's keep pushing to form films and the mission of creating, making a difference, one film at a time. And after school was born. And you know people and really truly is how did we do it? We just did it. We just said we were gonna do it with just makers that wanted to join forces.

Speaker 3: 17:19

Right, yeah and yeah. So that's it's um. It's beautiful. It's beautiful to see the village come together, because it takes a village, yeah.

Speaker 4: 17:29

And truly. You know, I had a company called Mendoza Entertainment. That's that's what I had when I met her. And when I met Jen, she had two form films. She had already established this in 2006. And I remember when we both were thinking of a company okay, well, we're gonna have to drop our both of our companies and she goes, oh, dropping two form films and then she told me how the name came about and I'm like, oh, no, then, yeah, that you win and we've, we've just been building. You know, we have 12 films done that we've been able to produce and we feel that we've been able to accomplish something that makes us very happy.

Speaker 3: 18:20

And very proud and also it helps, it makes me feel great and I know, for for now as well, that we've helped our colleagues as well make their films to believe their dreams come true, like Alex De Oyo's, like Yvonne Cole, like Carlos Carrasco. You know we've, they've trusted us enough to produce their, their films, and it's been definitely a labor of love for all of it, for all of us.

Speaker 4: 18:53

And because I mean part of it was that when people were coming to us and they saw our first film, they go. You know, people were saying why are you sharing your budget? You shouldn't share your budget. We want to share it now, but at that moment we felt like we needed to.

Speaker 4: 19:09

Well, yeah, we were, we were just starting out so we're like, you know, but as filmmakers as filmmakers, I thought if we start sharing how much we did it for, then people will go, oh, I can do this, oh, I see it, oh, there's a possibility. So that sort of became our niche for a while the micro budget, low making. And people would come to us, right, and we would look at their budgets and we show them how they could make it. And then they would go Well, we can't do this without you. So then they would hire us and it sort of became the thing our niche, right Saying that, we kind of lost.

Speaker 3: 19:43

We put our stuff in our, in the back burner and so, but it was perfect. Why? Because we were getting ready, training and getting trained and prepared for her choices, which is, you know, circling back to to her choices. It is our biggest baby, it is our highest budget and it is a period piece.

Speaker 3: 20:05

It's a period piece and it's for us, our our vehicle to get to the next level. That is our goal. And so, going back to your, your second question, which you know, it's about the financing how did we, you know, how did we get the financing and also what happened and why are we fundraising right now? So I'll tell you my, my cliff note is basically, three years ago, we started a, a developmental crowdfund, and then we did, and that's when, I believe, that's when you and I really solidified our relationship and our team started showing up, our village started showing up, and in that village came our very first amazing, incredible investor, and you know he's our private investor.

Speaker 3: 20:57

I will keep his name private, but it's, it's just one of those angels that we believed was going to show up. We didn't know how, but he did, and his beautiful wife and his family, and and we've become family because we've mentored their children, who want to want to be in the business as well, and so it's become a win, win, right, and it's their first project as well as far as executive producing, and and they're just as real, as real. Yes, it's just been the biggest blessing of our lives as filmmakers, like the dream, the dream angel investor.

Speaker 4: 21:45

Yeah, truly, there are no words to explain the experience that we've had with them, with both of them, and it's been one of the things that make you really, truly believe that there are really solid human beings, solid men out there, because I will speak for the man's race there are a few in between, and he is a family man, a man of his word integrity.

Speaker 3: 22:16

I mean an incredible dad, like a wonderful friend, yeah, so there are beautiful beings out there.

Speaker 2: 22:25

Yeah, yeah, and you know what and this is for the listeners out there, you know. First of all, I need to comment on the vision that they still had, because I'm not going to lie. Even when I signed on and they said you know what, we're going to do this and we're going to spend this type of money and it's going to look like a five million, I'm like how about that? Let's see what it really do. But boy, did they deliver. I mean, when they sent me the trailer, I was blown away. I was like what just happened here? I mean, these two, they really shot a studio level type of film with the shoestring budget. Now I I not get it, because when they were telling me their budget, I was like guys, you know, you can do so much more, you can do this, you can put money on the talent. And then I'm like screw the talent, because, honestly, every actor in there is stellar and I'm so glad that they gave opportunity to the ones that are not the obvious talent. She's slayed as a director. Her performance on her own mom is off the charts and they went behind. They like walk the walk and talk the talk. And and you know what, why be a salesperson, because, as an actor, you are a salesperson in somebody else's movie. You're selling someone else's movie by your performance, so why not be the salesperson for your own dream? Which is why I'm asking everyone to check out the website I'm going to put on the show notes and and rally up to support them to the finish line, because, for those of you who don't know, when you make smaller films, you don't get bonded. You can't afford to get bonded, and so when shit happens, like crazy weather, hello, climate change and you lose a week of filming that's what happened on this movie, which is why they're also fundraising Is there are like little things that happen that we're not accounted for, just because it's life, and but they deserve to have people get behind them and help them finish this. And I know I'm going to sell the heck out of it because I believe in it, and and so you know, please support them. You know, go check it out, Because, as we talked about this, you know and I love what you said about, by the way, the Latin voices and not making a Latino film oh well, no, you're just Latino filmmakers, period.

Speaker 2: 24:59

You don't have to be showing the obvious things. I love the American fiction. I don't know if you saw it, but one of the purposes of American fiction you're going to see, you saw it right. Well, I'm not going to say, oh my God, you have to see this, because this is exactly.

Speaker 2: 25:16

The director was a first time director, he had never directed in his life, but he wanted to tell a story that is not going to put black people as with the stereotypes, and this is exactly what you did.

Speaker 2: 25:30

You tried to break stereotypes and so you know, jennifer, you are an amazing actress and Marisi were a fantastic producer and, of course, incredible director, and everybody coming together, and this is really what independent filmmaking is all about. So you know, I know that, by the way, in closing this little because we're going to have more of this, as probably we're going to do another episode when Got willing, the film is shot very soon and then we can talk about the journey I know you had a dark moment, both of you, when somebody were promised we're not going to name names again but promised the funding, and then they did not deliver and you know, the dark night of the soul. As I say, in screenwriting, all is lost, yeah, and mindset has a lot to do with how you got yourself out of it. So tell me both of you, how did you get yourself out of that dark place?

Speaker 3: 26:28

OK, I'll start and then you can close it. Yes, so the dream was to raise all the funding and we did it with two investors, one of them, once we got to Miami about four days later, pulled out it was. That night was almost for me like when I found out that my parents were in jail after winning Miss T Miami. I was so in the high, like my dream is coming true. I'm going to go and tell my story. I'm back at, I'm back home telling my story as a director. It's full circle moment for me. This is like incredible. And then the rug was pulled from.

Speaker 3: 27:16

Miami and it happened in Miami again and I was like whoa, I mean, all of those feelings that I had as an 18 year old came back rushing in. The only difference, alexia, was that my mindset and the, the, the experience as a, as a woman. Now, what I made it mean now was I have an opportunity to relive that and really, truly heal that moment, because I'm making it mean that I am unstoppable. I'm making it mean that God is protecting me. Rejection is protection and there's a better way. And I was giving up my baby. Basically, I was like going to sign off on the copyright and we, as true farm films, were not going to have full creative control or any of that. It was basically here, have our baby, here I'm having my baby, and now it's, it's all in your hands and God has another plan, and that's not truly what I wanted. So. So I feel that all of these obstacles to tell my story are so parallel to what I went through as an 18 year old that it's giving me the opportunity to relive it, but respond to it in a different way, in a more empowering way. And no, and not making it mean because at 18 years old, what I made it mean was that I wasn't important, that I didn't deserve my dreams, that I wasn't worthy, that I I didn't matter and that I was not lovable. All of these things that I, as as a young woman, made all of that mean I was abandoned. I was all of these things, and now, as a, as a, as a, as a 52 year old woman that looks 20. I agree is now saying guess what, jen? No, you were always worthy, you were always enough, you were always important, and this was a gift. This is a gift for you to tell your story so that you can help others liberate themselves from their own. You know incarceration of not feeling enough, of not feeling worthy, and so this is why this happened. So I thank that person in retrospect for giving me that opportunity to stand up strong. I'm gonna tell my story in my terms and you know what? We're not going back to LA without making a movie. How much do we have? We need to now. We need to stop and see the schedule and we're going to shoot the first act and we're gonna get A badass trailer. A badass trailer, a badass first act, which will also serve as a pilot, as a presentation, to get the rest of the funding and get the right team and the right people on our team.

Speaker 3: 30:28

And that's what we did, alexia. That's what we did, and it took us another two weeks. It was so hard, I cried so much, but I knew that it was the right way. It was like I was able to call the shots. I was able to be truly the boss, the creator and the boss of my own story and not have someone make fun of my title, of my film, her Choices, or make fun or be little, whatever it is that I was trying to do, because that was also part of it.

Speaker 3: 31:05

And so it's really knowing your worth and knowing that your story matters and what's in your heart is precious, and not allowing the outside world and their opinions to stop you or to belittle you, because we all go through it. I'm not alone. I know I'm not alone, and so it's about standing strong. It's about standing strong and being unstoppable and continuing on and pivoting. Like Tony Robbins says Pivot, you can pivot. And you got to have a hundred different ways, a thousand different ways to do what it is you want to do. And to do what it is you want to do, you keep going. Until you're done, you keep going until it's done, until you make it happen. And that's what we're doing, and with human beings like you and like our investor and our team and Peshman too, I mean our team is just. That is the blessing.

Speaker 4: 32:14

We know with you, with Peshman, with the different people that we have on the team, I have to say, miguel I don't want to keep him out of this the thing that it really takes a team and a village to. We couldn't have done this alone, we truly couldn't right. And the crew, our DP that we had, our line producer Duane Julio Salgarriaga, one of our great friends.

Speaker 3: 32:44

Edadina. I mean, you know again, we're going to start naming every. It's our whole team.

Speaker 4: 32:49

We don't want to leave anybody out. People wonder you know if you're wondering why I love and admire Jennifer. I mean you, just, you just heard it, we listen. That moment I felt that I had failed her right Because I brought this investor in and I told her I need to go for a walk. I literally went for a walk down the street in Miami. I've never, I'd never, been there.

Speaker 3: 33:16

It was like 1130.

Speaker 4: 33:18

I was on the phone figuring out, calling people that I know and I go please somehow come in with figuring out a way, because I felt like I had just failed her. We had two different things going on, two different feelings. And then when I got back in the car, we both looked at each other. We said this is what we're doing and I'm like okay. And then I said, okay, what do we have now called Dwayne? I was not the original line producer on this, it was the company's line, the other company. I've always line produced our movies, so luckily I have the gift of line producing. I already knew it, so I went back with Dwayne.

Speaker 4: 34:01

We sat down for a day and a half, looked through all the numbers, came up with the days that we could shoot, the important days, because we felt at that moment that we have to shoot the most expensive looking part of the production as well, Because that is the eye candy for people and specifically also, you know it's a coming of age story and, as you, as, as you well know, you know when it's the opening it's. It's the high intensity adrenaline, and we went and did it and we are so happy. It was so hard, but when you see it, you just go. Oh my God, we did it.

Speaker 3: 34:42

That wasn't enough. That wasn't enough for for the universe to like, make me, like, get stronger. It's like, okay, now you're pushed the production You're going to start April 10th that week, but now we're going to send you the most torrential rain in history in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. So, darling, let me see, show me what you got. Jennifer Barons.

Speaker 2: 35:09

Well, jennifer Maricio, you certainly showed the universe where you got and you know, as we always say, think from the end. I mean, this lady showed up on the Tony Robbins zoom. She was picked out of I don't know 400,000 attendees and she's holding her awards and she's ready to give the speech. So this is what I'm rooting for and you know, that's why I also created little studio films and obviously my podcast is to champion exactly this type of people. Can I have all the biggest stars in Hollywood on my show? Yes, I can. Can I have some of the biggest stars in my movies? Yes, I can. I can access them. But what really makes me happy is to see people like this. And so when you're wrapping up this podcast and you're checking the trailer and you're going on the website and you're going on the Seed and Spark A, don't just do the $22 thing where you just get my book Because you know what. Yes, that's great. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2: 36:09

I am also giving my book as a bonus because I want people to also learn exactly what those two just did on their own, and I'm putting some cliff notes of that. But you know what? A dinner in LA or anywhere in a big city. For two it's like 200 bucks. So can you skip a dinner and maybe give 200, 300, 500? Maybe you give more because you get to have your name on the credits and you get to come to the premiere and meet all of us and learn about this journey? Yes, you can.

Speaker 2: 36:40

So please, I mean, help this amazing team, for the Latinos, for the underrepresented, for women directors, for indie producers, for creatives. You know, it's not just one cause, it's many causes. So I'm going to get off the soapbox and I'm going to just have those two give you some last words as to why they need your support before we close it, Because it wasn't meant to sell or fundraise, but we have to. This is our business, we are salespeople, we're artists and artists are salespeople, no matter what you say. So please tell me, why should this be? Why should people open up their chat box and help you and help the story?

Speaker 3: 37:32

We are artists, pernures and as as entrepreneurs. Part of that gig is to fundraise, and together we're stronger. And this is a universal story. This could be any 18 year old on the planet that has won you know beauty contest, and it's about a mother and a daughter. It's about a family torn apart, and we all have that same thread. It's a story of never giving up your dreams and family forgiveness. So join us and make a difference in telling stories that really matter and that unite us and that really inspire the world to be a better place.

Speaker 4: 38:22

I'll say this I always go back to our first movie the first time we showed it in Los Angeles at a screening and the impact that we have on a lot of filmmakers in the possibility that you can green light your life, that the only person that can really truly stop you in doing something is you and your own limitations and your own sabotaging of your own character, and that we are the example and proof that it can be done. We are also proof that together, as a husband and wife, can be done. And I will close this by saying I told this to Jennifer and I want to say this not because I need to look like the hero here is that I truly began to understand love at a deeper level with Jennifer, because my whole agenda now with her is that I give her a platform. I'm not fighting for my own platform here. I'm a man in a man's world. I am fighting for that.

Speaker 4: 39:35

I want the best for her and I can tell you this and I can guarantee you this because I've seen the cut of our movie. We're going to show the world who Jennifer Barron's is and what the life that she had created to be able to empower so many women out there that are so afraid to show who they are Right, and this is that platform and this is I am here at service for her. This ain't about me, and that's why I think it's so important. We're all unstoppable. We're all unstoppable.

Speaker 2: 40:24

Yes, spoken like a true man's man, a true king, a true king God bless you and a real producer as well. So producers, recognizing producers, and you guys are amazing. I can't wait to see you go through the finish line. We're all in this together. Thank you so much for coming on my show and, in closing it, please do donate and, if you enjoy this episode, share it. Subscribe rate review. Buy my book, not on Well, yeah, you can buy it on Kindle too, but buy it through Seed and Spark. Yeah, so that you can do some good and help these two get their movie made. Yes, thank you for my book. Yes, the heart of show business. Thank you, mauricio and Jennifer, for being on this show. Ciao, thank you, buenas noches.

Speaker 1: 41:23

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