How It All Began.

Erica Harrell

Producer

Laura and I met sometime in 2004 when we were both undergrad students at the University of Central Florida. I became the producer for two wonderful directors at UCF, Solange Morales and Debby Wolfe.  Laura was friends with Debby and Solange and therefore became my friend as well. Debby’s film “Cat’s Bad Hair Day” went on to play at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2005 Hampton’s International Film Festival while Solange’s film “No Boots on the Bed” is making the festival rounds now.

Unfortunately I did not produce Laura’s UCF capstone short film, but I always wanted to work with her. After graduation Laura moved to Los Angeles and pursued many different areas of the film and television industry. (She will have to blog about those adventures as I can’t even begin to describe her time in LA) When I was looking to move to Los Angeles, it was Laura who warmly offered up space in her tiny studio apartment for me to stay in while I searched for an apartment.

Shortly after I moved to LA, Laura pitched me an idea for a script that she had that involved a young nurse being mentored by an older nurse. This idea became the backbone for the script of “Baker”. Back in 2005, I made it one of my goals to produce Laura’s feature film and now three years later we have “Acts of Mercy.”

Through out my short career it has been awesome working with people who are my friends as well as my business partners. I hope to continue making movies with Laura and I am honored to have her as my good friend.