Hi, my name is Palmer Williams III, and I am a Writer-Director based in Atlanta. In each project, I weave identity, culture, and faith-driven undertones into coming-of-age black perspectives. With a poetic touch and world-building elements, my storytelling creates space for both reflection and resonance. As well as shape work that explores resilience, purpose, and the layered experiences of black life through a lens that is casual, confident, and spiritually rooted.
Currently I am known for short form content reaching millions of views across multiple platforms. Now I know it’s time to expand myself with longer narrative pieces, and there’s one theme that can’t escape my mind,
Love.
When I think about the concept of love, my mind goes straight to love in the romantic sense, then I think about God, family, friendships. When I further peel back the layers on the definition of love I start to see patterns of hope, faith, sacrifice, understanding, and learning to be at peace within self before loving others.
I recognized that I’m not the only one, I see people looking at love from only a romantic lens when in reality there is more to it. From late nights conversing with my little brother, to the prayers my mother spoke over me as a child, the lessons my father has passed down from past generations, and my developing relationship with God. I want to create a film that shifts the multitude of love to the forefront of our minds, using the stories and relationships that I see in my head.
This brings us to...
The Love Files
Two young classmates with opposing beliefs about romance spend one night debating the true meaning of love, risking their vulnerabilities through explorations of seven different forms of love before their assignment is due.
Tone & Style
Each love story will unfold in our characters' minds. Their thoughts and memories will be expressed through cinematic lighting and composition choices that resemble shows such as Euphoria and Moonlight. In addition, we will expand upon the nostalgic stories with vibrant colors that can only exist in a dream.
Comparables
With themes similar to If Beale Street Can Talk, the composition style of Moonlight, the lighting tones of Euphoria, and the nostalgic feel of Crooklyn.
Distribution & Platform Goals
We are aiming to submit to the film festivals listed above. After our festival run, we are going to distribute the film to streaming platforms such as Apple TV & Prime Video.
Marketing Tactic
Production Scale
This film has a low budget of $75,000 which will allow for the equipment, cast, and on-camera world-building needed to make this vision come to life. This also includes marketing for the film itself and film festival fees, so that our audience will know about the film’s release. In addition to hiring local crew/talent to build community around this film. We planning to start filming the second week in January.
A Jazzy Take on Love Produced By
Tyla Harris
Tyla Harris is an Afro-Carribean Latina born, raised, and creatively crafted in Atlanta, GA. Tyla is a multi-hyphenate, whose artistry spans over film, television, and theatre acting, improvisation, and coaching; classical, modern, and majorette dancing; poetry, creative writing, and song; and producing film. The Christian creative is most-notably recognized for her decade of work as an actress onscreen in commercial, television, and film, starring in various projects such as “For Life” (ABC), “Six” (History), “Tales” (BET), “Fantasy Football” (Nickelodeon), “Coins for Christmas” (BET), and more. With a Bachelors in Political Science (concentration in International Affairs), Tyla focuses her artistry on community-driven projects, producing, writing, and directing entertainment aimed at uplifting society while pushing the conversation on sociopolitical implications. TylaHarris.com - IMdB
“Love is a ever-flowing blessing revealing to us the very kindness of God. I am extremely excited to be apart of such a refreshing project.”
Marquise Jones
Marquise Jones is an award-winning creator who has a talent for helping, inspiring, and healing people. His unwavering faith in God leads him. He wants everyone to be seen and heard, from the cast to the crew to the audience. He possesses an ability to see ordinary things and reveal what's extraordinary about them. He approaches his projects with intentions and carefully considers the potential impact it could have on the world before starting it. With a background in producing, directing, writing, and editing, Marquise has been using film to tell stories since the age of eight, submitting films and placing in annual state film competitions. Now he has credits from student to industry level projects, a director and producer of Music Videos and Short Films, an editor on a TUBI HBCU Vampire Drama, and a freelance editor for Netflix. mrqsjones.com
“As soon as I read the script, I fell in love. This is a story that deserves to be told. Under the direction of Palmer, it is going to be a success! ”
What’s the plan? How can I be apart?
We are so glad you asked…
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—Donations above $750 will be thanked alongside their causes and/or businesses donated from.
—Donations $1,000 and above will be contacted with exclusive offers and gain access to behind-the-scenes content and conversations.
—Donations above $10,000 will be contacted for interests in becoming named and involved with us as one of our executive producers.
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Thank you to everyone who supports!
Love this idea, love the project, would love to be a sponsor… one question though. Why is the turn-around time so soon?
The need for fresh, new black stories with “sumn ta say”. : With stories on the rise having fresh perspectives of black voices such as 2 Chainz and Omar Epps short film “Red Clay” (ABFF) , there is an increasing demand of indie films and short-form content that is refreshing in its’ take. Need proof? Just take a look here at Politickin’ , a short film directed/produced by our own director Palmer Williams, written/produced by our very own producer Tyla Harris, and graphic designed by our other producer Marquise Jones… a short film that garnered over 400k views in less than four days, championed by different conglomerates within the film industry.
The Film Festival Run we’d love to submit to. With a story as fly and fresh as “The Love Files”, we would love to film and submit to notable film festivals such as ABFF, Cannes, Martha’s Vineyard, Sundance, and SxSW. We are confident that we will place in multiple film festivals, and we have a wonderful team of young creatives who have already previously been honored and presented at different festivals.
The Love Trend is extremely popular right now! With many industry heads planning to film romance comedies and romantic films within the new year, we would love to secure our spot with Palmer’s creation that has been brewing for quite a while.
Trust us, there’s no rushing the process of love, and we are experts at making dreams of all sizes comes to fruition.
Join us in solidifying a fresh stance on love in life.
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