Creativity and Belief

What is belief? It is all around us. It is the software that drives our brains. It is the engine that runs us. We want to take what we learned about creativity, and apply it to belief. In fact, the two are very similar. I believe, what works for creativity often works for belief! I think, this is the essence of creativity. We can take two things that normally don’t go well together, and create something new and exciting.

In GangwayZ, as filmmakers, we are been driven by many passions- for images, structures, characters, drama, music, design, action and, of course, stories:). Film gives us a vehicle to explore all these things. What I realized during the process of ‘Spaces for rent’ is that to make a good film, one has to be able to see the world from each character’s perspective. Otherwise, the film will not resonate with audiences. All of us in the movie realised that the world simply does not revolve around us. Each and every person on this planet is the main character of his or her own movie.

'Spaces for rent' is a movie based on Maxim Gorky's 'The lower depths '- with recession being the protagonist:). In recent times, recession is the big word on everyone's mouth; actual sufferers as well as those who pretend to. In economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a company's GDP for at least two quarters, a period of reduced economic activity. But directly or indirectly, one is certainly affected by it. But an intellectually challenged person like me does understand that markets have slumped so the TRP for business news went up and recession has become a generic topic of every household, whether or not they understand the meaning of it.

Now coming back to my main discussion, at GangwayZ, our goal is to create films of such depth and power that they can somehow capture this new understanding of ourselves. We are an incredibly versatile species, and it would be a shame if we let this very strength be our downfall. Right now, our species needs to develop the ability to step back from what we are doing, and evaluate all beliefs on an equal basis, just as we do during a creative brainstorming session. And we must also be able to honestly speak out about what works for us, and what doesn’t.

You might be surprised at hearing such sentiments coming from a tiny production company. But we have always dreamed big, and we've always known that it's not enough just to build a huge megaphone to speak to the world through. It's what is said through that megaphone that's really important. We don’t have the huge megaphone yet. We're still working on that. But in the meantime, we think our time would be more productively spent on the ideas we want to use that megaphone for.

We'd appreciate your help. We'd like to establish a dialogue about ideas that connect deeply to the world. Nothing could be more important during these troubled times. This is a start. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

By Monish…No rubbish