We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Lauren Childs a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Lauren , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you recount a story of an unexpected problem you’ve faced along the way?
I’ve written a number of screenplays, have chosen great cast and crew and am working on manifesting the money to make them.
The fact that this is taking so long is hugely frustrating. Some days I want to scream and I think – am I cursed or does God want me to do some particular things?
I tend to think the latter and one reason I know my movies will be made and will be extremely popular is not just that they’re really good stories with exceptionally talented people who will work on them, but that I’ll use them to increase the safety and happiness of animals.
Not that they’re directly about animals – except an animation about cats and animals. The first movie I’ll make is a horror movie – www.SheLivesAgain.com, the second is When I…., a dark urban drama, and the third is about a female contract – killer www.KillerEyesMovie.com.
I work to keep a positive mindset and one thing that keeps me really uplifted is being around cats. I feed a lot of community cats in Pinecrest, Coral Gables and South Miami and am delighted by the support I get from the community in doing that. As well as thanks I receive cat food donations, in the form of actual cat food and online donations through Zelle (kauranchilds@yahoo.com) and PayPal (happyanimals777@yahoo.com).
Experiencing people’s love and support of animals has really improved my attitude to humanity and is bound to affect my movies, which tend to be on the dark side.
Also, to release the frustration I do a lot of cycling, affirmations, and reiki and EFT on YouTube.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
From England, art and writing are what I’ve always done – I worked as a portrait artist whilst I worked in the anti-rape movement in London and continued to paint when I lived in San Francisco. When I moved to Miami I did pop art and traveled a lot, painting murals. These days I don’t paint, I write.
When in San Francisco I wrote six books, which tragically died in a fire. Yes this was before the internet,
For some years now I’ve been writing screenplays and am excited to begin my movies.. It’s encouraging that actors, who usually only read their ‘sides’’, tend to read the whole of my scripts because they say they just don’t know what will happen next.
Also when I was choosing the cast of the first movie I wrote, Killer Eyes, I knew that some of the cast I chose had the ability to become stars and it’s great to see them progressing so well in their careers – people like Noel Mirabal, who is local, Angelo Diaz and Omar J. Lewis, to mention but three.
I feel my future audiences will be riveted and sometimes shocked by my movies. Plus they’ll provide food for thought. Definitely entertaining!
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
As I mentioned, improving the lot of animals is important to my work.
Part of that will be making it less fashionable and acceptable to be a coward – like those who hurt animals, for example.
Some people are increasingly conscious of their motivation and who they are, taking responsibility for what they do, but there are conspiracies of evil that allow terrible evil to be done, to animals, children, women, and men.
So many turn a blind eye to evil, pretend it doesn’t exist and so, support it. One reason for doing this is to maintain blood family bonds.
To me family is not automatically important – they’re people we choose to incarnate with in this incarnation, it doesn’t mean that they are necessarily good people or that we should accept and support them. Some people pay terrible prices to stay in family or other relationships- I guess they’re afraid to be alone,
It’s better to be alone. Particularly when you support evil just to get some human attention. For example, there are women who go out with cute stories to get kittens and other for free, then give them to their ‘men’ to be tortured and killed in dog-baiting, for example.
One of my favorite quotes is by Einstein; “The world will be destroyed not by those who do evil but by those who watch and do nothing.”
Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.
Yes I’m an artist but more than that my soul comes first. I’ve always lived life in the most authentic way – for me.
This has tended to cost me a lot financially – I could have made choices that would have brought me a lot more money, even wealth and financial security. But if situations didn’t feel right or I thought the experience would be deadening, I just didn’t go into them. Or I left real fast.
For example I’ve had offers that would have meant me abandoning my cats – it’s even been suggested I do that. Would I ever abandon my cats? No freaking way!
Even the revered Suze Orman has said she deeply admires the sacrifices, including financial, that artists make.
Do I expect to be a struggling artist forever? NO.
But it’s excruciating. And I tend to have expensive tastes.. Roll on the money!
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