Mason Ewing of Van Nuys on Life, Lessons & Legacy

We recently had the chance to connect with Mason Ewing and have shared our conversation below.

Mason, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. What do you think is misunderstood about your business? 
For me, people have a hard time understanding my disability. I think that in this world, being blind makes it complicated to work in an artistic field. As a blind producer, professionals in the film industry are often shocked: “How can a visually impaired person produce, direct, design costumes, or even handle set decoration?”

But what I want to show all the Hollywood professionals is that my disability is a strength for my work, not a limitation. As I like to say since losing my sight: I see even better than those who can see. So Hollywood professionals better hang on tight!

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Mason Ewing. In April of this year, I turned 43. As I like to say, I’m a child of the world: my father was American, my mother Cameroonian and Sicilian, and we are Jewish. Since arriving in Los Angeles, I’ve begun to rediscover God, and it has been incredibly healing. Going to synagogue has helped me feel truly at home again.

As I’ve shared before, my life was a story that seemed already written—a sad story that ultimately made me stronger. Unfortunately, I was mistreated by a family that refused to love me, and because of that, I ended up losing my sight. But one thing I am certain of is that God had a path laid out for me, and I understood that much later. Today, I am at peace with myself. In 2026, it will mark 30 years since I lost my sight. That tragic event left an indelible mark on me.

Living in darkness has taught me that when you are disabled, you can become an easy target for the wrong people. When I was in France, I paid a heavy price: in 2025, some people tried to destroy me, harass me, and persecute me. It was an incredibly difficult year, but God was by my side. He placed a golden armor around me and protected me from all those negative people.

What I learned in 2025 is that being Black and disabled isn’t easy. You are often the target of malicious people. But I believe God put this trial on my path, and I came out stronger. What hurt me the most was the misunderstanding. Losing my sight at 14 was devastating, and some people in France even suggested I was faking it. That made me reflect deeply on human cruelty.

Today, I’m happy to live in the United States, a country where laws protect people like me. In France, justice sometimes allows pseudo-journalists to write whatever they want about innocent people. But here, in Los Angeles, I can finally be myself and focus on my company, Mason Ewing Corporation. Working in the arts, creating projects in fashion, film, music, publishing, and many other fields is an absolute joy.

In 2026, I want to highlight the logo for my brand Baby Madison. This mixed-race baby with blue, slightly slanted eyes, a blonde streak, 11 months old, and from a fictional California town called Jonathanland, will be a role model for everyone. Baby Madison will carry messages of peace and tolerance across the U.S., and eventually, around the world. For me, Baby Madison represents the future. This logo will create tremendous value for everyone who invests in it. He and I move forward side by side. Baby Madison is an entire universe: animated shows, comics, video games, a streaming platform, and, in the future, a theme park called Madison Park.

In 2026, the SOS Madison International Foundation will open in the United States. It will support two main causes: abandoned or orphaned children, and disabled or blind individuals, helping them integrate into the arts and everyday life.

Right now, I’m also developing a horror film saga titled Reytac’s 2 Rounds, based on a real urban legend about the forgotten city of Reytac. Through my company, Ewing Power Production, we will bring this story back to life. Additionally, I’m working on a portrait project through my company Madison Design. The collection, The Children of Reytac, is a tragic historical drama set around the Reytac train station in the 19th century.

Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. Who taught you the most about work?
In my work in the arts, I’ve learned so much thanks to the people around me. Since 2001, I’ve been fighting to succeed, to be heard, to be seen, and it’s my friends, along with my mother Marie, who have always been there for me. They are my source of inspiration.

For example, with my company Mason Ewing Corporation, my guiding principles are luxury, prestige, family, respect, humanity, and of course, innovation. Mason Ewing Corp (MEC) has always been a family-oriented and ambitious company. Being blind, it’s essential to be surrounded by honest, serious people who don’t seek to harm you.

In my team, I have a childhood friend, Amazir Lee, who handles our editing at Ewing Power Production in collaboration with American editors. I also have Fabiola Bongo, another childhood friend, who walked in my very first fashion show in Paris in 2006. Today, she manages the entire fashion division within Mason Model Empire.

In music, I work with a true genius, Dany Brown, a composer, producer, and artistic director. Together, we make my label Holotechrecords shine. Dany is an incredible talent, and our goal is to see him one day work with artists like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Shakira, and many others.

For film production, I work with two longtime friends, Louis Lopez and Eric April, two talented actors who will contribute a lot here in the United States. Working with people I trust is essential: as a blind director, I can guide their performances, and they adapt perfectly to my direction. Louis Lopez has that special something I believe Hollywood producers are looking for. As for Eric April, he shines on screen, and I’m confident other directors will see what I have felt.

Since arriving in Los Angeles, I’ve also met incredible, kind, and genuine people: Calista Carradine, John Blyth Barrymore, Tony Barrymore, Stephen Nemeth, Stephen Groce, Gabriel Cannon, Massimiliano Trevis, Andrea Miraglia, Vittorio Sodano, Samantha Kuester, Emmanuel Garcia, Tony Selvage, Hassan, and Abdul Juma, Frederic Zermeno, not to mention my godparents at heart, Eliza and Eric Roberts. Eliza is amazing; she has always been there for me and believes in my talent and strength despite my disability.

I know it’s a long list, but these are wonderful people who have supported and inspired me enormously here in Los Angeles. They are my role models, and I can’t wait to work with them on future projects.

Do you remember a time someone truly listened to you?
This question really made me reflect, because the first time I truly felt respected and heard was the moment I set foot on American soil. The United States brought me peace, joy, and, most importantly, taught me that I am a human being who can be respected and listened to.
In France, when I moved there in January 1989, my relatives, my uncle and aunt, began mistreating me. This lasted for several years. The first time, I was only eleven and a half. I decided I had to protect myself just to survive. At that time, I was living in Seine-et-Marne. I went to more than a hundred police stations in France asking for help—I was a runaway child in danger, at home and on the streets. But unfortunately, the French judicial system, the police, the gendarmes, even those supposed to protect children in social services, never wanted to listen to me. I was just a Black child who “wasn’t worth it,” and they made that painfully clear. The police even beat me and locked me in a cell.
The second time I was not listened to was in 2001. I was 19, homeless, and placed in a French organization called SAMU Social. Because I am blind, a caregiver named Marcel Boulet took advantage of my trauma and vulnerability to sexually assault me. I filed a complaint, but nobody wanted to hear me. My words of suffering were ignored. Some victim associations were aware, but everyone turned a deaf ear. In France, it was unthinkable for a Black person to accuse a white caregiver. Marcel Boulet got away with it, and I was left traumatized for life.
The third time I was ignored was devastating. Prosecutors, judges, and the police all let certain people attack me. I realized that in France, there was no place for me; I would always remain the disabled Black person that nobody cared about. For years, a man named James Dominic Chabert decided to persecute me because of rumors and unfounded accusations. I tried to file complaints, fought to be heard as a blind person, but I was naive—I didn’t understand at the time that I would never receive justice or protection there. But thanks to God, I had divine protection; the Almighty was by my side.
Another young Frenchman, Fabio Di Domenico from Marseille, joined James Chabert to harass, defame, and attack me for 16 years. I filed dozens and dozens of complaints with police stations in Seine-et-Marne and Paris, sent letters to prosecutors, wrote to numerous French organizations hoping to be heard. I realized that all my efforts were in vain; the French justice system would not protect me. Fabio intensified his harassment with the help of a journalist, Timothée Boutry, who apparently got his journalism degree from a “surprise bag for children.” They published harmful articles about me, and again, the French system refused to act. The reason? Freedom of the press, supposedly.
Because of them, I received death threats online. I will never forget how France destroyed, humiliated, persecuted, and endangered me. Timothée Boutry, a racist journalist, decided to attack a blind Black man, and they almost succeeded in destroying me.
(According to journalist Timothée Boutry, I’ve been pretending to be blind for 29 years; I’m so intelligent that I’ve managed to fool all the top ophthalmology hospitals in their country. Sometimes I say to myself, “Bravo Mason, you’re too strong.”)
I am sharing my story now for one reason: I refuse to give them any more power. Since arriving in the United States, I finally feel alive. I am a disabled human being who is finally heard and respected. Here, I know I can count on the American justice system—it protects the innocent. My skin color or my disability does not matter; as a victim, I am taken seriously, and I trust law enforcement to act.
I won’t say more, but thanks to God, I will win this battle. I am deeply grateful to all my friends who believed in me and protected me. All these experiences have taught me invaluable lessons and made me stronger than ever.

Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What would your closest friends say really matters to you?
If my true friends were asked what matters most to me, they would say being happy and showing that, even with a difficult past, you can succeed in the artistic world. I especially think about children who have been abandoned or mistreated like I was: these orphaned kids should never lose hope.

For me, one of the most beautiful things in the world would be to become a father one day, and maybe, one day, a grandfather. My true friends know how much these two things, bringing hope to struggling children and building my own family, would make me immensely happy.

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
The day I’m no longer here, what I hope most is that people remember me for the good I brought to this Earth, that my story remains an example, a life lesson. I want every child in the world who lost their parents too early, just like I did, to keep hope alive through my journey. I want them to remember that anything is possible, even when you’ve lived through the worst. I went through terrible things, but I made it out. Today, I’m happy, and I will have succeeded in building a beautiful family that will carry the Ewing name to great heights.

If one day I leave this world, I want my children, my family, and my friends to remember how deeply I loved them, and how grateful I am that they were there from the very first day I set foot in France, and later, when my life beautifully unfolded in the United States, a true gift from life and from God.

I also want my children to know that everything I built was for them. I didn’t receive an inheritance, but today I’m leaving them one of the most precious things in the world: Mason Ewing Corporation. My company, my baby, my best friend, my other half. This is my legacy, the result of my struggles, my pain, and my love.

Contact Info:

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