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Do You Web Series

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    Do You is the second collaborative production from the up and coming producing duo, C. Wyatt Cagle and Gordon S. Williams. The short screenplay for Do You received an Honorable Mention Award at the Urban Media Makers Film Festival in Atlanta in October 2007.

    Cagle and Williams’s first producing effort, the multi-award winning short film Gemini screened at over fifteen festivals across the United States. The project received distribution with Westpark Foundries through Akimbo Systems which broadcast Gemini to close to 2 million homes in 2006.

    Previous projects that Cagle and Williams have been involved include the multi-award winning short narrative film The Greater Ambition and the multi-award winning documentary Surviving Rita: Looking Forward.

THE PRODUCERS

Gordon S. Williams

Writer, Producer, Director
G Sharp Productions

After observing his quiet and unassuming demeanor, you will be pleasantly surprised at the creativity and productivity of writer, producer and director Gordon S. Williams. Since the summer of 1999, Williams has been involved in several creative ventures such as independent film projects; the short film A Dance, the multi-award winning romantic comedy The Story of Marcus and Reyna and the career versus love drama, The Greater Ambition.
The Greater Ambition has been screened across the United States at film markets and festivals in cities such as Memphis, Washington DC and Houston. The film project was awarded second place in its divisions at the Spindletop/Lamar University Film Festival and the Pencil Head’s Dusk Till Dawn Festival. The Greater Ambition was also a finalist at Film Expo Texas and The Gulf Coast Film and Video Festival in 2003.   This project propelled Williams to be selected as a finalist in the nationwide Urban American Filmmakers Workshop and Fox Searchlight competition. During the summer of 2003, Williams had the opportunity to travel to Warsaw, Poland to work on a documentary titled Warsaw Uncovered where he was the associate producer.
In the fall of 2004, Williams completed his fourth project, Gemini that he wrote and produced. The action adventure short film was selected as; the 2005 Southslam Film Festival Web Fest Winner, received the Independent Spirit Award at the 2005 Seguin Film and Arts Festival, and first places in its divisions at the 2005 Oscar Micheaux Film and Book Festival and the Film Expo Texas 2006.
    The project received an Honorable Mention Award at the Pencil Head’s Dusk Till Dawn Film Festival and was a Finalist in 2005 Gulf Coast Film Festival. Gemini has screened in cities across the country such as Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Houston, Memphis and Washington DC. Gemini was also available for broadcast on internet protocol (IPTV) by Westpark Foundries through Akimbo Systems. The short film project will reach 12,000 homes across the United States at its debut and close to 2 million homes in 2006.
Williams won first place at the Film Expo Texas 2006 Screenwriting Competition for his script Sacred Flames. He also garnered an Honorable Mention Award for his script The Game of Love at the 2006 Spindletop/Lamar University Festival.   In the fall of 2006, Gordon produced Surviving Rita: Looking Forward, a documentary that focused on the long lasting effects of Hurricane Rita on the Southeast Texas region.
Surviving Rita: Looking Forward was selected as the best documentary at the Louisiana State University Outhouse Film Festival 2007, The Gulf Coast Film Festival 2007, and best film overall at the 2007 McAllen Film and Arts Festival. In June 2007, the documentary won first place in the Press Club of Southeast Texas and the Houston Press Club competitions.   The documentary was awarded second place in it’s category at the 2007 Urban Media Makers Film Festival and has screened at number of film festival and in several cities across the United States.
   Currently, he is working on his fifth narrative project Do You, that has garnered an Honorable Mention Award in the screenwriting division of the 2007 Urban Media Makers Film Festival in Atlanta. Gordon is a board member at large for the Southeast Texas Association of Black Journalists. Williams is the Television Studio Operations Manager at Lamar University and developing several projects.

C. Wyatt Cagle
Producer, Cinematographer, and Editor
CGL Studios

C. Wyatt Cagle has been obtaining experience in the film and television industry since his youth. After several years as an event photographer Wyatt served as the Director of Photography for the travel documentary, Warsaw: Uncovered that was produced in Poland in 2003 and the independent film The Breakdance Kid that screened at the Austin Film Festival in 2004. Also in 2004, Cagle gained notoriety for his directorial debut for the award winning martial arts short Gemini. During the short film’s year and a half long film festival run, Gemini was acquired by West Park Foundries for distribution.
After working in the commercial production market in Houston, Cagle traveled to found employment as the director and editor for Somnio Solutions Inc. While at Somnio, Wyatt produced projects for fortune 500 companies such as Dell, 3M, HP and many others. His work produced positive feedback and even earned Cagle an Advertising Award in 2005. After leaving Somnio, Cagle freelanced as a consultant on a number of small independent documentaries and directed music videos. He also had the opportunity to produce a documentary in association with The Source for Women on the effects of abortion on young mothers and society.
Called back to his love of cinema, Wyatt sharpened his production skills as the Assistant Director on the set of the independent film Noble Things. Wyatt’s craftsmanship as an Editor has played a tremendous role in a number of award winning documentaries including Magnolia: A Century of Oil and Surviving Rita: Looking Forward.
Currently, Cagle is the Post Production Supervisor and Lead Editor at Team Baby Entertainment where he has earned the prestigious NAPPA Gold Seal for his outstanding work in children's programming.

THE CAST

L.A. Young

Portraying the role of Frank Bradshaw is Houston actor L.A. Young. Since March 2006, L.A. has appeared as an actor in fourteen films. He served as an actor and was credited as producer in the film Garrison which won the Silver Award at the Park City Film Music Festival and a Gold Remi at Worldfest Houston. Young has also appeared in the films Cowboy Smoke and most recently, the Los Angeles based film Hitting The Bricks. Garrison and Cowboy Smoke also screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

Prior to acting in film, L.A. participated in a number of stage productions in Texas and New Jersey, including Night Must Fall, You Can’t Take It With You, Oklahoma, All My Sons, Harvey and Butterflies are Free. He has also written industrial screenplays and plays that have been performed in ten states. He studied acting with Oscar and Tony nominee, William Hickey at HB Studios in New York and currently studies with Deke Anderson.
In addition to being an actor and producer, he is a decorated combat veteran, a former Marine officer and a lawyer. He is a partner in the Houston law firm of Hughes Watters Askanase and is on the Board of Directors of Atchity Entertainment International, a Los Angeles based film producer and literary management company.
A man of many talents, Larry has a great love for music. He is a former songwriter, guitarist and singer. Among his other endeavors, he has been an editor of a national publication and has written over 100 articles and co-authored a book. He has been elected to several honorary legal societies.
Young was impressed with the talent that was assembled for this project.
“We had quality people and quality actors and crew in Do You. I think the film will reflect this and the core integrity and talent that everyone brought to bear on this process." Young says.

Daisy Mae Hargraves


    Actor, musician, athlete, mother, devoted wife are just a few descriptions to describe Daisy Mae Hargraves. The Southeast Texas native’s childhood was spent being a tom boy, keeping up with her two younger brothers and the neighborhood of boys. She spent most of her days playing sports, training for gymnastic competitions and later becoming a varsity cheerleader for her high school. After graduating from Hamshire-Fannett High School, Daisy attended Lamar University and pursued a degree in Communication with an emphasis in Broadcasting.
While in college, she studied television journalism, participated in Community Theater and married her high school sweetheart, Hank. Daisy portrayed Mrs. Bradman in Blythe Spirit; this was her first acting role. After Hargraves’ graduation in 2000, the harsh realities of reporting news drove her to pursue her love for acting. A year after the birth of her first son, Major, she moved with her family to California and studied at the New York Film Academy in Burbank. Upon completing the academy, Daisy signed with a talent agency in Los Angeles and began auditioning. While on the West Coast she starred in several short films and also played an angry actress in Float along side HBO Entourage’s Josh Lebar.
Hargraves decided to focus on her family life, she moved back to Texas, and found representation with talent agencies in Houston, Austin and Shreveport, Louisiana. Daisy worked on several commercials and even worked in production on numerous projects. She earned eligibility in the Screen Actors Guild for her role as Ginger in the feature film Noble Things that was produced in Southeast Texas. During production of Noble Things, she learned that she was pregnant with her second child, Ivy Mae.
“Motherhood has brought a new dimension to my life and the depth of the characters that I portray.” Daisy says.
Daisy found a challenge in playing the role of Kesha Bradshaw.
“I can personally identify with Kesha’s struggle to please everyone she loves. Being true to self though, is like freedom to dance like no one is watching. Do You is just that.”
Currently, Daisy is a group fitness instructor at Christus Hospital Health and Wellness Center and World Gym’s Group Fitness Coordinator.

Connie Carter

A larger than life personality was born in a small East Texas town to Wayne and Kathryn Farque. Their daughter, Connie Sue has led an interesting life and Connie brought that life experience to the role of Starla Bradshaw.
Connie Carter was born Connie Sue Farque on September 18, 1946 in Hemphill, Texas to Wayne and Kathryn Farque. She grew up in Beaumont, Texas where she graduated from French High School in 1965.
Connie has lived in several cities across the state of Texas including Waco, Houston, Austin, and Dallas. While living in Dallas, Connie received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Texas at Dallas. She decided to move back to Beaumont in 1982 and was married five years to Jim Carter. Connie is the mother of two daughters, and has fourteen grandchildren.
In 1987 Connie and her family moved to Austin for a few years and then she and her daughter moved to Baltimore in 1989. Her marriage ended in 1991. Connie’s next move would launch her into the world of acting in 2002. She moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia where she performed in several projects for Dominion Pictures, including a number of Movies of the Week, several FBI Files programs, and a commercial for CBN broadcasting. While in Virginia Beach, Connie enrolled in the Actor’s Studio for a year of acting lessons under the tutelage of stage and film actress, Sylvia Harmon.
In 2004, she moved back to Beaumont to care for her aging mother and enrolled in classes at the Department of Communication at Lamar University. Since attending Lamar University, Connie has served as the producer for The Dean’s Corner, a weekly university and community informational program. She has also worked on the award winning documentary Surviving Rita: Looking Forward and the award winning Monster Storms documentary produced by the Department of Communication and the Jason Alliance of Southeast Texas.
Carter enjoyed her experience of the set of Do You.
"I loved every minute of the creative process of making this film. It was fun even though it was hard work; at the end of the day it was gratifying.” Connie says.

Cheryl Guidry

At an early age, Beaumont native Cheryl Guidry discovered her love for singing and acting in church and school plays. As a young adult, the Lamar University graduate performed as the lead female singer with the band “Stereo” and has several guest appearances with the Jazz Innovators. Cheryl has performed for many celebrities and dignitaries including Oprah Winfrey, Pope John Paul II, Diahann Carroll, Yolanda King. Cheryl has written and co-produced several songs and in 1998 she had the opportunity to release her debut single, “Now There’s Love.”
Her theatrical resume includes the roles of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar; Egyptus in The Ark with the Beaumont Community Players; Charlotte, in a Lamar University’s production of Charlotte’s Web.
Cheryl lends her talents to several charitable causes, including; The Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program, Symphony of Southeast Texas, I Have a Dream, ASPIRE Tobacco Prevention Program, and
LU-llaby, Lamar University’s Theater Annual Scholarship Fundraiser. She has also served as director of after-school drama programs, choirs and youth groups.
“I strongly feel that all children, regardless of socio-economic status, should have access to fine arts.” Guidry says.
With that in mind, Cheryl help to create Lighthouse United, Inc., a faith-based nonprofit organization, dedicated to the personal, cultural, and spiritual enrichment of our community.
A veteran of the arts, wife, and the mother of three, Guidry still finds time to volunteer and help in the community with organizations such as Young Audience and she is also a faith-based counselor. She is currently employed as the Program Director of IEA- Inspire, Encourage, and Achieve, a local youth serving non-profit organization.
Cheryl devotes her time, love and talent to helping others realize “through God all things are possible.” She recently appeared in a short film titled Accepted and is currently working on an upcoming music project with her colleagues that is scheduled for release in the fall of 2008.
Guidry also had the opportunity to sing the Star Spangled Banner in front of presidential candidate Barack Obama and an audience of thousands at campaign appearance in Beaumont in February 2008. In April 2008, Cheryl had the opportunity to achieve a lifelong dream as the producer of The Wiz. The Wiz was a community wide musical sponsored by the Global Youth Service Project in Southeast Texas.

Jamel Thomas

   Huston-Tilloston University alumnus Jamel Thomas portrays the role of Cameron Teague in Do You. Born in Temple, Texas, he is the eldest of five children. Thomas began pursing his career in acting in 2001 and has studied under a number of acting professionals at 501 Studios, SP Studios and Texas State Theatre School of Acting in Austin.
   Jamel gained experienced on stage performing as the lead in Yellowman in 2005, the role of Ty Richards in Love Versus, and the role of Richard in the Pro Arts Collection production of Fabolation in 2007. He also has appeared in a number of commercials for Dell Computers and Southwest Airlines and has worked as professional print model.
   Thomas has worked on several of University of Texas student productions and also with the university’s production company, Burnt Orange Productions. He had a role as a paramedic in the feature film Balls Out-The Gary Housemen Story with Sean William Scott. Jamel has also been the lead in independent film projects such as The Catch, No Quits, and Aeon. Thomas also had a reoccurring role as Drake Johnson on the Austin based soap opera, Shades of Grey.
   The practical joker of the cast, Jamel says he enjoyed working with the cast of crew on this project.
   “I’m fortunate to be apart of Do You. With the amount of talent on this project, I have no doubts that it will be successful.” Thomas says.

Osbie Shepard

   “We knew that we had to find an actor who could play the role of Vernon with a calm demeanor but be able to put his character’s wife Paula in her place when necessary.” Williams says. That person was Houston actor Osbie Shepard.
   Shepard has performed in a number of theatrical productions in the Houston area. He has played the role of Lewis Barnett in the play Proposals, Barrow in the production of Chrysalis, and the role of Reverend Sykes in the play To Kill a Mockingbird. He has performed at the Silverhouse Theatre in the play South Park written by Houston

playwright Reginald Edmund and has also graced the stage of The Strand Theatre in Galveston in The Exonerated.
   Osbie has gained experience in front of the camera while acting in film projects in California such as Another Round, Yesterday Was A Lie, and Shelter. In Texas, he has had the opportunity to appear as an extra in the film Grindhouse and was also a featured extra in Sin City, both films were directed by Robert Rodriguez.
      In March 2008, Shepard played the role of Walter Lee Younger in the Country Playhouse production of A Raisin in the Sun in Houston.

Jennifer Almaguer

Playing the role of Kesha’s outspoken and opinionated best friend Lilly is the very talent actor Jennifer Almaguer. Her passion for acting started at the age of twelve and led her to receive a degree in theatre from San Jacinto Community College.
   Jennifer’s acting credits include an a appearance on the Fox drama Prison Break and she is currently working on the National Geographic documentary titled Lia McCord playing the role of “Cindi.” Almaguer has polished her acting skills in a number of independent films and commercials.   She has also hosted a television program Salsa TV where she had the opportunity to interview celebrities such as Sandra Bullock, Mark Whalberg, Bruce Willis, Antonio Banderas and many more. Recently, Jennifer reprised the lead role of “Miss Julie” in the University of Houston Wortham Theatre production of Miss Julie.
   “My passion for acting started in the theater. I absolutely love performing on stage.” Almaguer says.
   The wife and mother of two will have the opportunity to work with one of her daughters on a national commercial for the product “Wild Harvest” Granola bars. Jennifer has enjoyed the experience of working on Do You.
   “I feel honored to have worked with such amazing artists on this project. Everyone was very professional and wonderful to be around.” she says.
   Almaguer is currently enrolled at the University of Houston and pursuing other opportunities in the entertainment industry.

D. Wesson

   In Do You, actor D. Wesson shows his versatility as an actor portraying the comedic role of Cameron’s best friend Earl. He is a graduate of Lamar University with a degree in Communication. While in college, he was an anchor for the Lamar University Television News. He also produced and hosted a talk show titled The Stage where he interviewed influential members of the Southeast Texas community. Wesson played the role of Marcus on the Lamar University Television soap opera, The Cut.
   After graduation, he had the opportunity to hone his acting skills as the relentless womanizer, J-Rob in G Sharp Productions’ The Greater Ambition, where he worked with Williams and Cagle. Wesson also played the role of Julian in Krescent Film’s Barber Shop Blues. His second experience working with Williams and Cagle was on the martial arts/action short film Gemini. Wesson played the role of the fearless hit man, Jax.
   Wesson has also gained experienced as a print model and is currently the senior director at KBMT Channel 12, an ABC affiliate in Beaumont, Texas.

Halie Davis

Katy, Texas native Halie Davis plays the role of Elena, one of Cameron’s high students in this film.   This energetic teen juggles school, soccer practice, family, friends, and searching for auditioning opportunities. She skateboards in her spare time, when hanging out with friends.
Davis discovered modeling agency at 14 years old heading straight to Page Parkes Agency, in hope of becoming a runway model. Disappointed by having her dreams shot down due to her height, she decided to focus her attention on commercial print opportunities and acting. Finding it hard to choose between the two, Halie fell in love with both career paths.
Halie was the first actor to audition for Do You and she made a memorable impression on Cagle and Williams.
“After her audition, I think Wyatt and I knew “Elena” was standing in front of us.” Williams says.
    Do You is her debut as an actor in a short film. Now at the age of sixteen, Halie is searching for a new agency and hopes to continue acting and working in the entertainment industry.
   “Being in a film is such a new experience for me, I couldn’t have asked for better producers on my first project. Wyatt and Gordon were very patient in working with me.” Davis says.

THE CREW

    Production for Do You started with two weekends in November 2007 with plans to complete production in January 2008 in Southeast Texas. The crew for this project varies in experience from industry professionals to students gaining valuable experience while they are currently attending Lamar University. The cast and crew worked on this short film for no compensation.
    Several members of the production crew previously worked with Cagle and Williams on award winning projects such as The Greater Ambition and Gemini. Lamar University graduates, Richard Johnson and Kenneth Dupuis served as Key Grips for Do You. Johnson and Dupuis are currently the creative production team for the award winning advertising firm, Cornerstone Media in Beaumont.
    “The set of Do You was a friendly and loose but it was also the most refined production environment that G Sharp Production has created. Every person was willing to do more and work harder to make the project a success.” Dupuis says.
KFDM Photographer and KVLU 93.1 radio personality Troy Harper served as the head audio technician. Gemini crew members KBTV production assistant Matt Lene, photographer Zack Dubuisson, and associate producer John Comeaux also reprised their positions on this project.
    “It was good to work with everyone again. The core members are back and we have all evolved as a production crew. Our little production crew has grown up.” Comeaux says.
    A number of new faces joined the production crew of Do You. April Marchant served as the wardrobe/makeup artist and was assisted by makeup artist Grace Mathis. Marchant works in the wardrobe department for the Houston Grand Opera. Bridge City High School theater teacher Debbie Miller served as the script supervisor. Music artist Troy Allan was also a new personality that was added to this diverse production crew. Allan assisted Harper with the audio as well as helping with a number of other tasks during production.
    A number of Lamar University students gained valuable experience on the set of this short film. Nederland, Texas senior Alex Flores served as the first assistant camera operator. Department of Communication junior George Tripsas served as an assistant producer. Senior John Campbell was an assistant producer and prop master for the project. Theater major Ross Clettenberg served as a production assistant along with Ozen High School student Terrence Carrier.
    Senior John Campbell was an assistant producer and prop master for the project. John says that it is rare for a student to get this type of production experience in Southeast Texas.
    “Working on the set of Do You was an enjoyable experience. It was a professional production where everyone was helpful, patience, and easy to work with. Even though it we worked crazy hours, I wanted to keep coming back.”