Will Packer

Petersburg, Florida is pretty flat.

It's not a lot of not a lot of.

Not a lot of elevation, but they lifted me up and they said they did me like cinema.

They said everything the sun touches is yours.

Right.

And they literally instilled in me this idea that I had the ability to accomplish and achieve whatever it was that I was willing to set my mind to.

And I was willing to work hard for and that there was nobody more deserving than you.

And the only barrier to my own success would be me, not external people.

And we have a tendency to give our power away to external people, forces, people with titles, people with money.

We give them the power.

And they say, well, when you tell me I'm ready or if you tell me that I can be successful, then I'll accept it.

If you tell me I'm not, then I won't accept it.

We give that power away.

My parents taught me very, very early on.

you don't give that power away.

So when you asked when I realized that, you know, I had the ability to do something special, it definitely would have been just in terms of like my matriculation sometime around the time that I got to FAMU, I got to Florida A&M University.

And I like to say that I really found my voice.

I certainly found my passion for storytelling.

I was connected with another brother named Rob Hardy.

And Rob had a passion for filmmaking.