The Rising Star award is given annually to individuals who have made significant achievements in their early careers, in addition to having made positive contributions to our local production community. I have applauded and admired the brilliant fire starters from our community who have received this award over the years, and I’m honored to join them as one of this year’s recipients. Thank you cityofjax and filmjax for this recognition. Thank you to my fellows at kp_video, my chosen family of production professionals, and my love person shannonrosegreene for being front row in support for this award and for everything that led up to it. As I said in my acceptance speech: “I’d like to dedicate this award to the people who stayed here against the odds and built companies, brought work here, found work here, and produced films to the best of their ability here so that the next wave of filmmakers like myself could have a reason to stay and something to build onto. It is possible her...