Name: Torrence Atkinson
Company: United Front Entertainment
Years in the business: Six
How did you get started in the film business?
I originally wanted to work with animes and create video games but it was very hard to get into the business during my era so I ended up enrolling in college for all of the wrong reasons. I walked out of my accounting class during my third year of business management at UOFH. I was in the middle of a test and I realized that I didn’t like my field and didn’t enjoy being a student. I didn’t know what I was going to do at that point! I started working in real estate for my mom until one day she came in and caught me writing a script instead of working and she fired me. The story that I was writing when my mom fired me prompted my decision to attend film school and the rest is history.
What is the mission of United Front Entertainment?
United Front Entertainment is contacted daily by artists, businesses and script writers for our production company to come out and help shoot their vision. We have worked with artists such as; Lil Flip, Beat Kings, Rap-A-Lot records, L.O.U.D. Musik, Boomtown and Trinity 357 to name a few. Videos are a part of our repertoire but we are film makers and as film makers we are not concerned about partnering with major production companies, or selling our work. If we can get money out of it that’s great, but we are more interested in putting out great work that can stand on its own at film festivals like Sundance.
Tell us about your latest film project?
The film depicts how a local neighborhood guy forms a family and alliance of people that he manipulates to take over the city of Houston with the Houston old-school and new-school hip-hop culture setting the tone of the story.
Why was including the Houston music scene so important to you?
I come from the old-school hip-hop scene with Big Hawk and Fat Pat. I grew up around so many of these pioneering artists with which the newer generations aren’t familiar. I want to introduce the true Houston music and street culture because no one has ever really tapped into it. The impact they made was local for so long, but now people come from all over to hear Houston music and imitate Dj Screw and Scarface.
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