Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Isaiah Love. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Isaiah, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.
As a child, my earliest memories was of film. Growing up in a lower income household to two incredibly busy and slightly neurotic parents. They’d always sit me down infront of the TV, it was my babysitter and it was my best friend.
Hours of watching television gold like the twilight zone and classic from the greats Kubrick, Lynch or Carpenter take your pic but more than likely I’ve seen their half their filmography before hitting double digits.
And I always knew that this is what I wanted to create stories and worlds for the viewer to get lost in, to give experience’s that would never be forgotten
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
My name is Isaiah love, I’m a screenplay writer/film maker
I began making films at around the age of 15, with just me and my 3 siblings messing around with our moms old cannon. We’d churned out little projects all summer long ranging from popular film parodies like one we did of the Evil Dead ( I think back on that fondly ) to even some goofy martial art films.
As time progressed and we matured the film making fell to the back of my mind, but one thing that never stopped was the stories.
I’d write out dozens of ideas in a year, a few have went on to become full screenplays others remain mere doodles in a notebook. But I never let my imagination fade I knew that some day and I’d put my idea’s up in the silver screen and this idea honestly kept me going.
Eventually I was struck with the Epiphany, why wait for someone to make my screenplay into a film when I can just bring it to life myself. Sure there was no professional training I had little to no connections in the industry but what I had was passion and a few good ideas, and that’s all it takes
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
The most rewarding part of being a film maker, is curating this experience for the viewer. If I’m doing my job right when someone sits down to their screen and plays one of my films my goal is to transport them away from reality to put them into my imagination for 10, 15 minutes an hour.
The mind is engulfed in the fantasy I create, and that’s a truly great feeling.
It requires great writing and world building and honestly alot of other people that do things way more important than me, but I’m the guy to ways the figurative wand that brings it all together and that’s a truly great feeling.
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
Every artist has to remain flexible, you’ll have so many idea’s for a project
Good luck getting them all in,
My most recent project was intended to be a short film roughly 8 minutes long. I began writing and the flood gates flung open. I thought I had all these great ideas and this little 8 minute script became a full hour and twenty minute feature.
After passing it around amongst my inner circle, I’ve had to acquiesce. Every great idea can’t make the final cut, I have to respect the rules and shorten the project and still create something I’m proud of. Honestly it’s a complicated feat but one you’ll have to figure out
