We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ares Giovanni a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Ares, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

I have in the past struggled tremendously with mental health and navigating through life. I realized one day that media had been a medium in my life and filled gaps that otherwise would have been filled by a community and proved me with an escape from the reality around me. In shaping me so much, I realized the amazing influence that our media has on us from social platforms to trending music and gifs. Somewhere down the line it saved my life, and I fell in love with my craft. If it could do that for me, it could do that for others.

Ares, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Im just an average guy who is capable of the extraordinary. I went to school for film production and broadcasting before working for myself. I mainly started with freelance and gig work. Spending a lot of time behind the scenes and in post-production. Before I turned to a behind the camera role, I did theater and trained in improv comedy and also practicing voice acting in my spare time. This all stems from a love of musicals,theater, and film as a child. Singing along with every movie and practicing every line I loved in the mirror, but unfortunately it was not welcomed by my community early in my life so I was never really able to be myself and kept alot of my talents hidden, mainly for protection.

I’ve always been different. I just so happen to be extremely far ahead of the curve. Being different was not always celebrated, and life doesn’t always provide an option to pursue dreams when real life is so present every day. So after a while, I’m learned to survive and blend in, pushing my vibrant talents to the rear, mostly ignoring them; but also mostly just ignoring them in the open.

But as life continents to do what it does, I was forced to take in alot of experiences that were destroying my happiness and I found it hard to find a reason to find joy, even after starting a family my tramas weiged on me. Before rediscovering my passion for the arts and my ability with a camera, I suffered tremendously with my mental health, the most difficult being D.I.D (disassociate identity disorder)and lived the majority of my life undiagnosed properly and tried to work a 9-5 and function like a regular person.

Needless to say, I failed. I wasn’t spending my time doing what I loved to do or doing anything I felt to me meaningful. I was very self-destructive and was spinning myself into a hole. Then, one day, I went to school and pursued broadcasting. That led to photography, then videography, somewhere shortly after that I was on camera acting or reporting; this eventually led to post-production and editing. Before I knew it, I could do it all. Pre-production to post production. Live events and radio broadcasts. Both sides of the camera, producing pieces and segments; there really came a point in my career where I could be an asset absolutely anywhere on the floor or in any stage of production.

Naturally, as my talent grew. I would network and establish a position with an absolute fabulous team of folks who would end up being my friends, who just so happen to share my love of media, and as time has passed for us, we have went from one gig to the other, on to the next event, and after this wild, unpredictable ride so far, I’m answering questions for an esteemed publication.

Given all my talents, I’d say the one that sets me apart is my vision. I have this one of a kind gift to see things where there is nothing, and see the whole thing from start to finish. The level of detail makes filming or creating overall seem more like something I’m remembering versus creating. It can have its drawbacks at times,often finding myself frustrated when I find difficulty translating what is in my head and putting it on paper in a way for others to see clearly. I find myself spending hours on the most miniscule details until it’s perfect and not many understand my level of attention to detail.

However, the attention to the small things and consideration to all the details is what sets myself and my team apart. I believe that when we create something it has the potential to be immortal and have an impact that will far outlive us. I treat each and every production with the same passion that I have for my own projects and truly aim to bring my clients visions to life. I’m assisting them with their footprint in the world, helping to establish identity. I’m assisting in pieces that will be shown to their loved ones, their clients and potential clients, or something that will be put into the world for their audience. I feel very honored to be apart in that process. I get an immense satisfaction in pleasing people and bring joy and peace in any capacity that I can.

I just hope that one day i can be the guy to inspire the person that will truly bring change to the world, and I hope to do that with the art that I create for the world to appreciate. 1 view or 2 billion. As long as the message was received for who it was ment for.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

To leave the world better then which i found it. Media, weather it be propaganda or a award winning film or a beautiful painted masterpiece, indeed has the capacity to change the world that we live in. I think we just need to tell the right kind of story. Historically, the pen has indeed been more mighty then the sword.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

It’s probably revealing the finished product to a client. After the grind of planning, executing, at last revealing the summation of all the hard work and emotion that is put into a project . Viewing the clients face, hearing them gasp. Just being apart if their story is very gratifying.

Also on a personal level, seeing everything finally exported and rendered down, then sharing the fruit of my labor is huge. It’s something that can’t be taken away, and in a way will always be there. My kids being able to see their father in TV is really bad ass. Just knowing I’m always just one view away from making everything a reality is surreal at times. Doing it with great people takes it to a whole different level.

But i think the biggest joy, my biggest flex of being a creator, is just putting love into the world. One project; one day at a time.

And the crazy thing is..

It’s completely free.

Contact Info:

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