Life is the episodic story of an African/American family growing up in the Bronx. This story will follow a mother and her three sons. As they all get older and learn from their experiences and mistakes. My drive an intention for this project comes out of a want to speak to younger generations (not just males). I want to create a way for people of all ages to understand intersecting ways of life from multiple people’s perspectives. This will be an inter-generational story, allowing for each one of the characters to talk about different issues that people tend to look down on individuals for and don’t want to talk about in a mainstream society. The societal issues I am combating include but are not limited to:

• “Non-traditional” Family structure, inter-family issues
• Poverty and the exploitation of young people
• Immigration (Process to citizenship)
• Police/Mass Incarceration à the way we treat people afterwards L
• Drugs and their effect on the community
• The Street life for people of different ages, how its not for anyone
• Fighting the self, family and friends
• Gun violence
• Relationship issues à this will come later or through a friend of the kids
• Conformity – handled in every episode
• A perceived lack of a code of honor amongst the younger kids
• The unseen difference between School vs Education
• Death and how people become numb to it if it’s frequent

The main reason why I have included all these subject into the mix is because they all affected my life, and the lives of my friends/ family growing up and whenever I go home and talk to my youngins / catch up on the state of the world; I know they still affect the lives of people today as much (and in many cases more). I want this mini-series to expose the stories and guiding life experiences that people like me walk around with and use them as teachable moments.

Ultimately, I would like to start this in a way that give an insight into how the hood mentalities can keep some people in the hood (physically or mentally) and at the same time put them ahead if they take what they learn in “the concrete jungle” and apply it to guide their lives in certain ways.

I’m almost done organizing the first episode and it’ll be up soon. In the meantime I’d love some feedback about potential ways to take it and how to frame the story world.