Today I want you tell you a little bit about myself
About Myself…
Hi, for those of those who don't know me, my name is keith Lea. I am a independent filmmaker from Stockton C.A. with over 15 years of experience working in the film business. I majored in Film & Communications . I have Written & Directed 2 independent movies, "Greedy & "Fumes of Fury". My next new movie, "California Livin" will be my third indie feature. Below is a picture of me during one of the the casting calls for the new 2016 movie "California Livin." I am the one sitting down with the water bottle in front of me writing on the paper.

I grew up in Stockton C.A. and lived in the bay Area but was able to travel the world some due to my father joining the Army when I was younger. My 22 year old only older brother was murdered, shot & killed due to gun violence in the streets of America. This impacted my family greatly. The loss of my Mother's and Father's Oldest Son, my Father's Jr.. This left me without a brother and no sisters since my parents never had any other kids.
A couple of years passed after my brother's death and my parents were living in San Francisco C.A . at the time and I decided I would move with them from Stockton C.A. to get a fresh start in life. I was at a point in my life where my brothers death had affected me and I did't know which direction to go. This is when my mother and I was watching t.v. and a filmmaker by the name of Matty Rich from the Inner City of New York was on the News program and he had raised a Hundred thousand dollars to make his own movie through the radio and investors. That's when the light bulb went off in my head and the movie bug hit me and I wanted to tell my stories through movies & touch peoples lives in a positive way. That's when I fell in love with filmmaking.
After watching Matty Rich on t.v. I told my mother that I wanted to make movies. She said go ahead I believe you can. With her belief and my own I went to the library and I had no I.d. card so i could not check out book. I would steal filmmaking books and read them and return them back after I read them until I got my library card and started checking them out. I wrote my first script and was not sure if i had the format down so I entered San Francisco City College and I majored in film. I took every film class they had even script writing to make sure I had it down packed.
My family moved back to Stockton C.A. Where I met a man named Cedric Singleton who owned a Rap company named Black Market records out of Sacramento C.A.. We agreed to start a film company Black Market Films and make a movie if I could come up with the script for one of his artists. I completed the script and we made the movie. "Greedy." I Wrote, Produced & Directed.
Below is a poster of the movie "Greedy."

I entered the Movie "Greedy" in some film festivals and was accepted . I got to travele to a few film festivals because of the movie "Greedy". The Hollywood Black Film Festival, The San Francisco Black film Festival, Cannes France "Augora", The Sacramento Film Festival, and a few others. Needless to say I never got paid from the company after over ten years since I made the movie "Greedy" with them.
Time went by and I gathered myself together and got a small crew and we made our own Hip Hop Graffiti Movie/Docudrama. "Fumes of Fury", written/Directed by myself & made in Stockton C.A. with my family and friends.
Here's the Movie Poster below of the movie "Fumes of Fury" we made for "No Budget" on our own.

In 2014/2015 after completion the Movie "Fumes of Fury" I was contacted by my old company Black Market Records & Films about did I have a soundtrack and we begun to talk and agreed to make the money right about the back pay for "Greedy"and put out the new movie I wrote & was Directing "California Livin". In 2015/2016 after five month's of some casting and getting the locations together they gave me a contract and I took it to the lawyers. The Lawyers looked the contracts over and told me they are not going to charge me any consolation fee because they wouldn't sign the contracts themselves. The contracts never got worked out in the 6 month's in preproduction, scheduling, some casting & auditions. They also wanted to film some parts of the movie in Sacramento and say it was stockton and countless other oppositions. I own the copy wrights to "California Livin" so I have the right & wrights to make this movie & bring this story to life for the people.
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