We recently connected with Corta Ishman and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Corta, thanks for joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?
One of my most meaningful projects would be the short film titles Ghost Pains: The Monster Within. This film is powerful because it gives a snippet into my life growing up. It’s like a introduction to who I Am. The film was created to also help the viewers who may have went through the same situations I have been through from bullying, thoughts of suicide, molestation, and being mistreated.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
The mastermind behind nine short films, one feature film, four stage plays, two web series, three feature skits, a full network of talk shows all produced and created by Corta with titles such as Troubled America. We Have Something To Talk About, Rated M, Indie Talk Show, Out and Legendary, also a dance coach for the North Dallas Trojans Cheer Team and so much more, Corta has made himself known in the entertainment industry. Working on becoming a household name as an independent writer and filmmaker, he has a unique touch on bringing twisted drama and real life stories to life. Born and raised in Selma, Al, his childhood was from a low-income family being raised by a single mother who was raising two other males as well. From a young age, Corta has always been creative from arts and craft to writing. Characterized by love, determination, wisdom, and strength, life and struggles has provided Corta with the inspiration to continue the path in creating. As time progress, Corta was putting together impromptu plays for his family gathering such as Hip Hop Nutcracker and a Christmas show. He has also became first place winner in the class storybook competition. Being in Selma, it was hard for Corta to produce a stage play or create a film because of the resources and the limit amount of support the city had. That didn’t stop Corta from writing and creating because he knew one day he would be able to visually show off his creativity. Corta has had many struggles in life from living arrangements to being jobless, almost being homeless, bullied, mistreated by friends, sexual molested, watching his mom be mistreated by others, and having to be the man of the house, he use those issues to become better as a writer. That’s when the storytelling become so different and unique.​Newly established in the theater and film, Corta has written nine short films and one feature film over the years, including Silent Partner, Intuition Assassination, Femme Vengeance, Ghost Pains: The Monster Within, Elfviticus, Shattered Love, Justice, just to name a few. During the times in Texas, he has also created a series as that was both written by himself and Sharae Sanders Schmitt longtime friend entitled And This Is My Story. He has also written a series titled Bermuda Triangle and America Unbeautiful along with Out In The South, which is based on true events in Dallas, and many others. With so many films under his belt, he also decided to go back to his roots and produce his first stage play in May 2018 titled Discreet also known as HUSH. He went along and produced his second stage play in the same year November 2018 title Burning Flame which became a sold-out show and major hit. As you can see Corta is no stranger to the arts of theatre and film. In 2017 Corta decided to expand his craft and offer his writing to others. After being in the game for some time, others started noticing him and begin to reach out to him to write for them. In 2017, Corta was asked to write a stage production titled “Why Woman Trip” a true story based on the life of Torie Lee which starred Momma Dee, Miguel Munez, Mike Merill, Silk the Shocker, Ebony Steele, Lo London just to name a few which was under the direction of well-known award-winning writer, director and producer Snoop Robinson. What’s Going On Now After that, he expanded more and wrote for many others including the all new type of murder mystery show call Trap Murder Mystery which is a hardcore murder mystery the only one of its kind and is not currently on tour as of April 2019 after having 13 sold-out shows in Dallas, TX. This allowed him to create more shows like Perfect Marriage Guilty Pleasure, Perfect Marriage Guilty Pleasure: A Family Affair, But I’m Married, and more. In the recent years, Corta has got his Spike Lee on by making appearances in a few of his films, working on stage on other productions, working behind the scenes on other productions, and encouraging others to keep doing what they do best and that’s to create. Corta dreams and goals is to become the Tyler Perry for his family and own his own studio which features mini sound stages, rehearsal space, theaters for both stage and film. Corta is also a published photography in Devine Magazine for his Disney Series! Corta is known as a Graphix Designer, Photographer, Writer, Dancer, and Computer Geek. Corta has overcome many series of obstacles including Suicide, Bullying, and close to homeless with his family. Today, after overcoming those obstacles, it has made him stronger than ever and made him realize that even though certain things happen in your life, you still have the freedom and power to be successful in all that is meant for you to do! In 2019, Corta name came from Corta Productions and Films to I Am Corta Entertainment. So when people ask him, Who are you, his response is, I Am Corta of I Am Corta Entertainment

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
One of the most rewarding aspects of being an artist or creative would have to be knowing that there are people out there who are completely strangers who would support your dreams and goals by viewing your work either if it’s a film or stage production. Word of mouth is amazing and with that tool you’re able to have your name and talents spread around to many other people.

How did you build your audience on social media?
Building a social media audience is what I call HardEasy. *Laughs* Reason I chose this term (which is my term) because on the hard side is being able to remain smart and knowing what you are trying to sell to your audience and reaching that demographic. Learn who your target audience is and build off of that. That will take time. On the easy side is being consistent and wording. You only know you and what you have to offer so being consistent with who you are and how you trying to reach “your” audience will gain you that following you’re looking for.

Contact Info:

• Website: iamcorta.com
• Instagram: Officialcorta
• Facebook: Corta Ish
• Youtube: I Am Corta Entertainment