Meet Freddy Falcon of Central Valley

Today we’d like to introduce you to Freddy Falcon.

Hi Freddy, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I’ve always wanted to make movies since I was a little kid. I grew up in not the best neighborhoods, so movies were an escape for me. I was riveted by these worlds and characters created on the tv in my house. It never felt like someone created it, just they were alive. At some point I realized someone was making these as I would see the names of creators, writers and directors and that’s when I found my purpose. From then on out, probably like 8 years old, you ask anyone I would have a pen and paper next to me as I watched tv. Because I was inspired to create stories of my own. I think most thought it would never come to pass but I knew what they didn’t, I was going to make movies and tv shows. I made student films and acted in theater in junior college but it was also there, I realized I had no interest in acting, but only being behind the camera. Eventually I worked my way up to creating my own company with my partner Danny Sauceda. We generated a first season of a tv show titled: Ghettobusters which was a parody of ghostbusters with the docu style of the tv show the office. It was enormous learning experience and we premiered at the grauman’s chinese theater, did comic cons for it and swept many awards shows including best screenplay at the Mexican American film and tv festival. Now I have several films about to be released as a producer (Affliction) and a writer/ director (Birds Eye, vengeance, 1209 covenstead) and several pilots (the mystical inheritance of Adina Hassan, the good die young, A guys guy, subjectivity) being shopped around town. I am a member of the directors guild of America and have several projects upcoming. Hope you’ll see a lot more of me in the future.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The struggles have been to get the final product that you imagined on screen which includes money and getting everyone swimming in the same direction. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, but the director must be the captain of the ship. A good captain listens to the best idea but also knows when to make the final call. My partners (Kevyn Furgiuele, Phillip Nunes & Matthew Calderon) today understand this philosophy.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am a writer, director and producer, but at the end of the day, I’m a storyteller and that’s where I shine. The thing I’m most proud of is how I’ve been told I’m so talented for so many years and that’s great but I think it can also be a trap, see talent is only as good as how hard you work and I’m an unstoppable race horse. I work 24/7 at this job. If I’m not writing or rewriting material, I’m filming and or in some level of preproduction, production or post. With post in my opinion being the most labor intense. Also I can be both a pragmatist and fight for scenes that require more than a budget might allow.

Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
I think three guys deserve my credit today. My partners Danny Sauceda who created my company Falcon pictures with, a filmmaker named Kevyn Furgiuele who is as determined to making something incredible as myself and Phillip Nunes whom I could not do anything without.

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