Competing at I.M.T.A. (International Modeling and Talent Association) opened a world to me I never knew was possible. Coming from The Bahamas to New York and being surrounded by young people who were as hungry as I to be in the business was an indescribable feeling. You see, I grew up asking people if they wanted to be in movies or be famous and they would say, "Nope!", so this experience was everything.

While at the competition, I auditioned for the New York School for Film and Television and out of thousands of people, I was given a partial scholarship. When I returned to The Bahamas, I told my Mother and we started on a mission to get funding for the remaining money that I would need to get in that school. We wrote letters to the government and set up Cook - Outs for assistance but nothing worked. At the time we were living in Grand Bahama and even though I was known as a fairly popular theater actor, no one cared. There was no support for 'actors'. Though I was disappointed, as the years went by I spent time with wedding videographers, who made movies in their spare time, and learned from them. I got a small camera and began filming and learning how to edit. I learned all the things I felt I would have learned, had I gone to school. I would not let anything stop me.

My Mother died on Christmas day '99 and it felt like life punched me in the stomach and knocked the wind out of me. I did not know if I still wanted to be an actor. I spent years after that trying to figure out who I was and what I wanted out of life. I just wanted to be normal and find a regular job and push the dreams out of my head.

The years passed with me either quitting or being fired from many different random jobs, in my attempt to be like everyone else.

In time, I returned to my first love with a new determination and created a DVD Series: Eric & Coletta. This was my first real project with actors working under me as a director. I made episode 1, put it on DVD and went out every day talking to people on the street and business owners, convincing them to purchase it. That episode ended with a cliffhanger and I made sure to put my cell number on the disk and I waited for them to call for episode 2. After weeks of pushing went by I was nervous and felt I had failed and no one cared to watch the rest of the series. I had put everything into that episode. Then one day a woman called and she screamed at me "You know you can't leave me hangin like dat! when the next episode coming out I ready to buy it!" Then I knew I had them. While we were not able to attract investors, it was clear we had a loyal audience that grew to over 100,000 copies being sold over a three year period. This was the first time I realized my potential.

Time went by, technologies changed and people stopped watching DVD's. Eventually I started a furniture cleaning and car detailing business. That business evolved into me developing a cleaning solution that people bought to clean their furniture and detail their car interiors themselves. I called that solution Blubaby Cleaner.

My movies are now also under that name: Blubaby Music & Film, powered by Blubaby Products LLC. Whoever you are reading this now, we still need investors. Have you ever woken up in the morning knowing you need to do something and not have the resources to do it? The agony to perform is always there... the value of what we bring is still needed. I have guided many young men and women in films who would otherwise have been involved in criminal activity had they not been able to express themselves in the arts. We must tell our own Caribbean stories. It does not take much to support, from a dollar to a thousand. All is appreciated. See the links below for more options to contribute.