Where are you from and how has it impacted you?

Even if you are from the same neighborhood as someone else, you might still be coming from different places. Where you are from is a complicated question and it elicits complicated, but interesting and thought-provoking responses. We’ve shared some of those responses below.
I’m originally from Martinsville, Virginia. University of Va – sociology concentration in psychology. Only child and raised by my grandparents. Manners and grace and thank you note and acknowledgment. Aunts would give me a stationery set. Silver base of pen. That’s a sign when I came to interview Heavy round base with a velvet bottom – guest book pen. at register – received with stationery – one Zadn’t seen one since. maternal grandparents raise you – proper etc. first typewriter in 6th grade – straight to it every Sunday would type out my wardrobe hangers match – very organized Read more>>
I’m born and raised in Chicago, by way of Canton, Mississippi yet I grew up in Harlem, NY. The highlight of my life was spending every summer with my grandmother whom I’m named after. As a small child, she fed me so much wisdom. Filling my heart and soul with all the tools she and my mom knew I would need as an adult today. Read more>>
FADE IN…My first 5 years of youth were spent in India – Thus I follow a spiritual leaning toward all things Buddha – And maybe I absorbed some of that countries’ love of movies… To be in a dark theatre, waiting with apt anticipation for the screen to light up with dreams or nightmares…Pure magic!… JUMP CUT…I started acting on stage at five – When I was seventeen, I hitchhiked to California to become a Star…Yeah right! I became a ‘star’ waiter and waited on some of the big names in the biz (those brutal but amusing anecdotes will be in one of my future films) – Read more>>