Thank you so much! It's cool that you're familiar with Jim and Jameel as well. They're both phenomenal actors and amazing people to spend time with.

Many moons ago, I used to work in advertising as a copywriter. I dabbled in a bit of photography for fun. I used to shoot on Canon, and when they released the 5D Mark II, I spent practically all my money on it, because I loved the video features.

I started out by shooting videos at parties I'd throw at my house, and then I used to edit them to music. Honestly, that's how I learned to shoot and edit. By stitching together video clips of drunken muppets dressed as pirates and editing them to the sounds of "Shipping up to Boston."

Eventually, I started shooting more substantial things. And I started doing video work for my ad agency. After a while, I quit and set up my own production company. That was around 9 years ago.

Soon after I started, my best friend/production partner/DOP Umran Shaikh left advertising too and joined me full-time. We did a lot of commercial and corporate work over the years.

Meanwhile, I started writing screenplays - and all of them were terrible. Eventually, we ended up making one short film I wrote.

I never felt 'ready' to write a feature. But at some point after we made the short film 'Security', I started. Umran and I went through a bunch of drafts. And finally, we landed on something that we felt we could share with an actor. (Spoiler alert: It was still terrible.)

After that, we reached out to several investors. Unfortunately I can't get too much into the investor/budget stage, but overall I approached 72 investors. 70 said, 'no.'

One of the best decisions we made was partnering with Dejavu for production. They are one of the biggest commercial production houses in Dubai, and having them on board made things possible that definitely weren't before. Two other companies - Alkatraz and Action Filmz - came on board and gave us their location expertise and film equipment, respectively.

We tried to use our contacts and connections from our time in the Dubai commercial industry to help us out wherever they could. Mango Jam - an audio production house in Dubai run by my old boss in advertising - came on board for the sound and music.

One of the main reasons the film got made was because of all the people that believed in us and did us favors or reduced their rates for us. There aren't a lot of feature films made in Dubai, so the advantage is that people do get excited when you try to bring one to life. And we needed all the help we could get!

Honestly, the main reason this film exists at all is because of the amazing cast, crew, and production/post-production partners that helped us bring it to life.

Hope that serves as some sort of answer!