 I've made a few videos about finding auditions online and today I want to show you guys like an actual example of how I found a lot of auditions or I booked a bunch of jobs with this guy through a Facebook post. This is Javier, do you want to introduce yourself? Yeah, I like to say I'm a filmmaker because I do it all but the main stuff directing and writing. You made a Facebook post where you were looking for other creatives in the Bay Area. The time I was just you know hungry to collaborate with more creatives in the Bay and I posted that you know I'm a Latinx director here in the Bay looking to collaborate and that's how that he got reached out. Yeah so I saw that post I reached out and then you were working specifically on a a commercial for Rick's furniture and so we did that and then after we were done shooting that we were just talking about different ideas and as we talked more we realized how much we wanted to tell stories about the Mexican-American experience in particular especially because we're both first-gen. I was born in Mexico, he was born here but I came when I was like four so I'm I just feel like the same. I just feel like first-gen versus an immigrant you know. After that we just continued to collaborate. We've done music videos, we did those Rick's furniture commercials, we've done we did the Coleman water jug. Most recently we made a short called The Lease and so I texted Javi and I was like Javi is there anything you want to work on? Like I'm trying to get footage for my reel and he called me and then we because I feel like not a lot of people call Javi will call you. And she was like what a millennial calling me? I know. So we talked for like an hour and we came up with ideas and then this one just like clicked we're like this this is fun because we have a few like Mexican-American experiences and just Mexican experiences really that we want to develop into stories like smashing of the face and the cage. Things like that. You don't really realize aren't normal for other cultures but this one it's that that time where there's like somebody that might speak Spanish so you give like a little like a little hand of sneaking some words in Spanish to see if like maybe or maybe not. After we decided on that we started doing Zoom calls. Yeah and well the story though I like how the story came up because it was very organic. It was also just all happenstance you know because I remember that day there's this the day I think I called Belle he got earlier that day my brother was like dude we need to film some and I was like I know and he's like what do we have right now look we just moved into the spot yeah you know you guys had just leased an apartment and I have experienced leasing apartments in the past so it just all connected and then we so we used that and we fused it with this conversation we had about when when you're you know Mexican at a grocery store and you're talking sometimes to the other cashier and they throw the English at you and it's just funny that those that nuance right there that you could experience with the cashier registry you know yeah and then maybe you'll say you'll drop a Spanish word like oh yeah and how much for the frijoles yeah and the tomatillos or like yeah you know and then sometimes it's just funny sometimes they'll pick up and then some some would like oh switch to Spanish but some of them won't and like when they don't it's funny because you kind of like I don't you I won't get too offended but I'm like dad do they like I do speak Spanish though like and then your brother and then says what did he say I said it was just like no like they don't need to know like I'll just speak English yeah he's like if they talk to me Spanish we'll just give you speaking which is hilarious because we were just saying how like we were opposite of that yeah just totally fine like whatever you want to do like who cares but it's just funny to have these like little similarities just the little and the little differences right my brother's on the other end like he doesn't care like oh he would rather be more kind of mysterious and like maybe I don't speak yeah maybe I would you assume maybe I'm from like the Middle East yeah yeah it's just funny to get all those perspectives and it was a mix of that with the leasing stuff that just kind of that became the least just what we did and so we did the zoom calls and in the zoom calls I try to take on the like a producers hat because Javi does a lot as far as are you judging my filmmaking skills not at all not at all I'm a filmmaker YouTuber I'm all about it I took on the like a producers hat I got us a place to film and got us food like little things like that figured out those things and I feel like we just work really well together and we like to continue to have ideas next we're gonna be filming something that's totally not at all based off of a true story about it's related to pizza yeah yeah you know stories we'll be filming that in November and then in September a little bit later this month we're gonna also film ideas that he has had for a while yeah and we're looking to experiment with this time around like reaching out to other writers and playwrights that I've that I met during the pandemic so you know I'm just gonna give them a some limit some limitations because a lot of creativity comes from limitations I'm just gonna tell them like the start of the story yeah so like the only thing the thing I have in mind right now is girl goes to an Airbnb what happens you know yeah Javi started writing the script and then we had a writing session together because I had experience in the past with leasing apartments then we had you know my knowledge of leasing apartments so we were able to write it more truthfully I think because we both had experiences like you had just leased an apartment I have leased many apartments like as a leasing agent so we just we made a short from that so that's the latest thing and I'm gonna show you guys a clip of it and you have an induction heated stove so if you're going to roast tomatillos to make salsa or whatever you like to cook it gets hot really fast and then you can go to his channel bless trust to see the trailer and then eventually once we're done with the film festival circuit which not really we only submitted it to two and we already heard back from one but once we're able to post it it will be on his channel the whole thing so you guys can check it out how do you find like more people to collaborate like obviously I was through a Facebook post yeah I mean honestly a lot of it has come from Facebook even even the music videos we've done like some of them like I found actresses actors DP's editor not man I tend to edit my stuff but I am looking for editors now but yeah if you want to experience editing because we do this like we just collaborate yeah we don't have a budget our budget is like whatever money we can afford to put into it so if you also want to be part of like just doing stuff for fun let us know slide into his DMs cuz I don't check my DMs very much sliding into the DMs yeah social media been really clutch about it yeah Instagram and Facebook YouTube like YouTube comments so go comment on his yeah on his channel so yeah I mean I like I just want to show you guys what can happen from a Facebook post so be careful right be careful with the quaver you end up collaborating with if you're under 18 don't like just make sure your parents are doing all of this in your company bring your bring your parents if the director doesn't want you to bring anyone that's an immediate red flag yeah cuz it's I would say it's important to bring someone along with you for the first time or a public space you know yeah somewhere where you feel safe like if even if you agree to go and then when you're there you feel unsafe leave especially if it's a collaboration and you're not getting paid even if you're getting paid if you're uncomfortable like it's not worth it don't do it anyways let us know if you guys have any questions about hobbies about filmmaking he's a filmmaker so yeah thank you so much for watching I'm gonna feature Javi's channel right here if you guys want to go check him out and subscribe and like I said the lease and the trailer will be up on his channel eventually once we're done with like the whole film festivals but thank you so much for watching Andy I asked for filet mignonne not filet mignonne and weird mushy stuff and skinny trees