The bulk of the screenplay for We Are the Sum (WATS) was written while I was abroad. For this reason, it suffered far less revision than would have been good for it. The story went through a number of false starts, and it wasn't until a couple of weeks after i'd promised my Director of Photography a first draft that something clicked. I was walked from my flat to the UEA campus listening to my ipod. It was a playlist of an artist i'd just discovered opening for Amanda Palmer at a show in London. His name was Jason Webley and, although he'd played a short set in London, his music stuck with me and I looked him up. It was with his music playing as I walked the long walk to campus that something shifted in my mind. I've always found music inspiring, but listening to the same four songs by Jason over and over again it dawned on me that the reason WATS was hitting dead end after dead end was that it was actually a silent film. All of my false starts were dialogue heavy and, when I sat down to write with the understanding that the film should, after all, contain
little to know dialogue, it practically wrote itself.

Four of Jason Webley's songs were used, with permission, in the final film and the trailer.

The film will be available on Amazon.com very soon.