A Letter From Gomez

I wanted to make films.

At fifteen I was writing graphic novels on Tumblr for an audience of around 80,000 people. I studied Creative Media. I wanted to be behind the camera and in front of it. Taking something from inside my head and turning it into something people could actually experience: that was the whole dream.

Then life took me into business. (Funny how that works.)

For fifteen years I've been the person brands bring in from the outside, usually for one to six months at a time. Construction, finance, aviation, hospitality, fragrance, fashion. My job was simple to explain and hard to do: get the founders, the shareholders, the directors, the camera operators, the sound designers, the editors and the C-suite into ONE room, so everyone sees the same picture of where we're going.

I learned to do everything myself. Websites, scripts, filming, editing, sound. Then I learned something better. There are people far more talented than me at each of those things, and when you bring them together and point them in one direction, the work becomes something none of us could make alone.

One belief stayed with me the whole way: if I can teach you how to fish, you won't need me. I never wanted clients calling back every month because something was always broken. I wanted to watch their teams grow.

But while I was helping everyone else communicate their ideas, I kept quiet about mine. I thought about how I'd be perceived. I waited. (What would my CV even look like?)

At some point you have to decide. Keep saying "I could've", "I should've", "I wish I did". Or begin.

This is me beginning.

I want to tell stories. I want to explore what humanity could look like if we got it right. And I want to build it with people who bring something of their own.

COMMUNICATION IS THE WAY. This is me finally using mine.

Gomez

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