Today we’d like to introduce you to Peach Rosemary.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Hello, my name is Peach Rosemary. I’m a 21 almost 22-year-old, Award Winning Director, Producer, Actress, and Screenwriter. I started originally doing voice acting when I was younger, I would take my Nintendo 3DS at the time and record myself doing voices with my stuffed animals. Throughout all these careers, the entertainment business never left my side, so I decided that I was going to start doing YouTube, recording videos, editing them, doing my own Minecraft Series with body actors in the game, recording all the episodes, and doing the voice acting as well. It was such a learning experience, then I moved over to Twitch, and streamed for a 1 year, gaining more than 1.3k followers. After leaving Twitch, I started going to church after returning home from Oregon due to a terrible breakup. I guess you can say I am trying to better myself. Doing the production services at my church made me grow as a person and my relationship with God.
There was something my pastor said that made me take that extra step; I started praying more and asking The Lord for a crew or something to come into my life to start my film; sooner or later, I met Esme, and we started to chat more about my vision for the film I wanted to do, and she started listing people. I was shocked. We started getting everything right after that, locations, crew, equipment, and cast, it was honestly God’s will for me to keep going with a passion I love. I knew in my heart and soul that I wanted to make true films, real, not overlooked, not overdone, just natural.
A lot of what Underneath the Bodies was definitely the moral and heartbeat of the friendship between Hazel and Amber. The characters were built to see something in me that I hated and grew from. Hazel symbolized betrayal in your emotions, and a lot of her was getting into Amber’s mind; we always get so criticized by other women who tell you what you should be and what to look like, so if I can make something that shows the depth into it, while still getting the message across, that’s all I wanted. Even though Amber threw her life away, that’s how I felt about her, which makes it real. That’s why it won so many awards; so many people come up now and tell me how much I am making a difference in the industry and that they have never seen it before.
So many film festivals kept inviting me to submit it and get more screenings for it because of how beautifully we captured it. Thanks to Erin Montoya and his brilliant eyes for cinematography. If he hadn’t said yes to the script, I don’t think I would have been the filmmaker I am today.
I am still so grateful and blessed and always give my thanks to God as well for even bringing him into my life and same with the rest of the amazing team I had. I just can’t wait for what else it brings me.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Location Scouting wasn’t too hard because, in advance, I had done the research. I presented the lookbook and locations to Erin when we first met and he told me “Yeah, we can try and make this work” From there he guided me with how to find permits, do a shooting list, etc.
The interior locations were so hard; we were supposed to do everything in a house, but things didn’t work out. Erin had mentioned that our Gaffer, Jesse had a spot being renovated and it was super empty so I knew I could work with it. So, from there we made our first call sheet, set decorated, and made it as close as to what the characters would have it.
We barely had any more time to look for other places, so I took it and asked Jesse some questions on what I could do with the place because I wanted to respect the property.
Editing the film was not as much of a challenge at the end, but at the start, made me super nervous. Luckily, my good friend Matthew helped me through the editing program at the time and how to use it. After he left, I got the hang of it to the point where I finished the film in one night.
I always have to remind myself that you aren’t going to get it exactly the way you want it sometimes, especially when you don’t have time. , I think God helped me with that, how to be more patient in his progress and what he can do for me, so I trusted him more with the process after all of it was done. It pulled off.
Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Right now, I am just working at Target to pay bills under the Fulfillment department. But in the film industry, I work on everything all my own.
I did the directing for the film, starred, and did location management/scouting, editing, social media advertising, and media arts such as creating the poster art, writing the story, producing the film, etc. I do a lot. I recently just produced 2 films, and now I am overlooking the Postproduction Department on one of those, I do emails, Production assistant jobs, etc.
I only do everything on my own for MY films because my stories and how I get them across are super important to me to the point where I’m like, “Okay, you can do the camera work, but you aren’t changing the script.”
I’m mostly known to be Amber, the main character in my film, Underneath the Bodies, and as ‘3x Award Winning Director, Peach Rosemary’ which is super weird to say or hear or even type??? I don’t know.
I’m super proud of what we did for the first film and how we did it with no problems. Everyone enjoyed our filming progress, and people from my crew felt welcome and safe, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted.
My sets are more calm, from being on SOME SETS, there is so much laziness and lack of passion it makes me sick. With mine, I strive to make sure my crew is okay mentally, spiritually, and everything. I never want someone to come on set feeling sad if there was anything I could do to help someone. I’d try my very best to see if there is something we can do to make a difference.
I was texting one of my PAs to get more experience, and she came; she felt different compared to what she felt like with mine, and she texted, ‘Peach, you at least made me feel like I was there, and I felt so supported’ if someone can text me that and thank me for that, I’m a winner. It’s really all God’s love in my heart. I appreciate people for taking their time to come out and play a part, and even if they didn’t do it right the first time, they will keep going to do it again next time. We’re all learning new things every day, so stop judging people and help them.
What does success mean to you?
I had to personally look this question up too and it mostly said, “If you achieve your passion, that is success” and that is so true.
Success, to me, is finalizing your purpose and doing what you love. If you do what you want to do, you have a better outcome; the more you practice, the better you get at doing it. Writing was such a huge struggle for me in school to the point where someone would need to read the question for me. Writing certain stories made me get away from the depression of bullying and pain other kids would make me feel.
So that’s why I focus more on getting mental health stories out there rather than doing something that involves drugs and painting over lies.
I think if people started to write what they feel and make it into a story, that would be more successful than lying to yourself. It’s you, that’s why.
That’s success, doing what you love and not giving a shit about what people say after.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peach.rosemary/?hl=en
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peach-rosemary-7483ab255/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/peach_rosemary
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC172GD9KsxtUGprpeOTmTaA
- Other: https://www.backstage.com/u/peach-rosemary-1/
