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

Sarah, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on in my acting career was my first short film project. I’ve always wanted to create my own films and portray the characters I create, as well as help other creatives build their own film portfolio. After working on multiple film projects and taking film classes, I finally got the courage to create my first short film. I took out some money from my savings, which I had been saving for 2 years, and jumped right into pre-production. With the help of other film majors, I was able to write, direct, produce, and perform in my horror film. Needless to say, it was exhausting and stressful! However, what makes it meaningful to me is I was able to take the first step in making my dream a reality. I was able to learn a lot of things that I couldn’t have learned if I remained as an actress. I’m very grateful for the learning experience and for the people who have helped me reach that moment.

Another meaningful project I’ve worked on was my own personal project to go out of state and create my first travel photography portfolio. Another one of my dream jobs is to be able to travel while taking photos. There are so many beautiful places I’ve wanted to visit (i.e. Japan, New Orleans, the Maldives, etc.). But when I applied to travel photography jobs, I’d always be denied. That’s when I realized in order to show I can do travel photography, I have to invest in myself and build a travel photography portfolio. Within one year, I was able to travel to Virginia Beach, Pittsburgh, New York, New Jersey, and Florida, taking beautiful photos of my amazing trips.

Sarah, 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?

It wasn’t until I watched the outtakes in the comedy movie “Rush Hour 2” that I had a sudden desire of becoming an actress. Seeing the behind the scenes of big blockbuster movies grew my interest as a child into pursuing a career into acting. I began performing in school plays and community theatres while taking drama classes to understand how to perform as a different character. Being a part of plays and musicals was fun because of the silly and talented cast and crew members, however, theater productions became less of an interest. Instead, I grew an interest in film acting.

I began taking film classes, which included a crash course on every job behind and in front of the camera (i.e. screenwriting, producing, directing, sound, editing, etc.). After completing the classes, I started applying for film roles. Surprisingly, I was hired to mainly play lead roles on multiple film projects. However, there were plenty of times when I was denied roles I really wanted to play. That time of rejection made me realize that if I wanted to play an action, sci-fi, or adventure films I was going to have to make them myself. And within two years, I was able to shoot my first short film and start my own film production called, The Golden Crown Studios.

While the Golden Crown Studios is still a newborn baby compared to other film studios, I’m still working on growing it into one of the top companies in the film industry. My goal now it to create faith-based short films that will turn into sci-fi and action movies in the future. As I’m adding more and more screenplays into my collection of completed scripts, I’m anxious into turning them into films.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

The mission that’s driving my faith-based films is to give an accurate view of how God can change people’s lives. One of my biggest pet peeves with Hollywood and the media is that they don’t show accuracy when it comes to faith. Not just accuracy in biblical stories (that’s already a given), but in the true and raw view of what it’s like living for Christ. They make us seem like we’re cocky people who do nothing but judge others and look down on them. Are there Christians like that? Of course, but that’s not the majority of us, nor is it the example we’re striving to set for others. I want to make films that show how the majority of us are. Broken people who go to Christ seeking love and redemption.

You can say that the Golden Crown Studios is similar to Tyler Perry Studios and Kevonstage Studios. The main difference is my faith based movies will have more of a sci-fi and action genre than a comedic genre.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

What society can do to best support artist and creatives is to promote us. A lot of artist have their catalog on social media, YouTube, their personal websites, etc. We’d greatly appreciate it if you can share our creations to people and spread the word of our talent.

For photography pages, we’d appreciate having our pictures shared for others to see. Especially now because the social media algorithm is keeping people from seeing posts from new creatives like me.

For filmmakers, we’d greatly appreciate it if you watch our films, follow our pages, vote for us in film contest, and donate money for our films. A lot of filmmakers have a dream movie they want to produce but lack resources we need that can be obtained primarily through money. Any donation, whether it’s $1 or $100, can help us more than you think.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.queens.camera.eye
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarah.cole.73744801
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-c-89bb0b126
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueensCameraEye?t=4e-nS-l80w16g7ArM7N1XA&s=09
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCxhMjWyCqnI1HD2KC67AyFw
• Other: The Golden Crown Studios IG Page: https://instagram.com/the_golden_crown_studios