Tim Alexander - Writer/Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor/Composer
Tim Alexander was raised by his mother and father along with his two younger sisters in Los Angeles, California. He knows the importance of a father and a man in a child's life. Tim grew up with his father in the home and clearly states that he would not be the man he is today if his father was not there.
Who is Tim Alexander today? At 49, he is a hard working man, is successfully married, the father of twin boys as well as co-father to two older boys previously born to his wife Chanin. As their father, he wants to give everything he has ever experienced to the boys to ensure their positive growth and futures in the world - the key word is positive.
Tim Alexander understands that we are a product of what we were raised to be. Though there are exceptions he feels they are very small in number compared to the rule - we are a product of our environment.
He feels both he and his sisters are a clear example of this rule, in both positive, and negative demonstration. All three share similar traits of their mother and father. None have ever smoked, drank or experimented with drugs, as they never saw it at home. None of them have a college education just as their parents did not and education was not pushed. Their father was a junior high school dropout and similarly, Tim Alexander is a high school dropout. Despite the lack of formal education, their mother and father were hard workers who demonstrated and required good work ethics resulting in successful careers for their three children. Like their parents, Tim and his sisters are strong positive influential parents to their children.
Tim Alexander is the self-made man he is today because his dad taught him step by step how to be a man. He taught Tim to 'never give up' and to 'make it work'. Just as his father was self-employed, Tim has always made his own way never taking a job that he did not create for himself.
After dropping out of high school Tim Alexander taught himself how to be a locksmith at the early age of 17. When his sister was getting married, she asked Tim to photograph the wedding, because in her words, ”Tim can do anything”. He didn't even own a camera at the time so he rented a camera, shot the wedding and decided to become a wedding photographer. Three weddings were enough for him and he changed his direction to shooting models instead.
That decision led to a 28-year career as a world traveled fashion photographer and make-up artist. He later established Castle Studio, a web design, retouching, print design and visual marketing company that worked with celebrity clientele.
This background has lead Tim creatively to where he is today, a filmmaker. He has successfully obtained distribution for his first self-produced film. Over-achiever, Tim Alexander wrote, produced, directed, shot, edited and scored Diary Of A Tired Black Man himself. The film was made as a message that he plans to build on in an effort to help save our families. Look for much more from the unique and creative talent of Tim Alexander.
Tim can be contacted by phone at 818-441-1492 or email at tim@castlestudio.net for interviews and speaking engagements.
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| I am the Writer/Producer/Director of the film "Diary of a Tired Black Man" - and I am going to make 2 follow up films to it. |
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| My goal as a Family Activist & the social movement around this film:
As a newly self-appointed Family Activist, I have a vision to bring healing to our families, both African American and otherwise in this country and the world at large. We have a very low standard in today's modern family and we have to look at it bluntly and work to change the negative direction we are blindly going in.
We must build up the role, importance and position of the father and a man's place in a child and families life. We must end the displaced statement of anger and frustration from so many women today, “I don't need a man to raise my children”. We must end the destruction of the father's image from the mothers to the children and from the media. We must get men to understand how important it is to be in their children's lives, and have them be respected more for doing so.
We must get women to understand their bad choice in men in their youth is going to have a bad outcome later in life - often producing uncared for children, frustration for themselves and financial difficulties. They must also understand that they can not just bring any man around their children as a bad role model, and they can't just do everything in front of their children; Laying up with a lot of different men, drugs and alcohol in front of the kids, cursing and fighting with their mates and friends, screaming and cursing at their children, the negative and explicit music they listen to constantly, the unclean unkempt homes, open adult dialogue and many other irresponsible acts.
Add to this the oversexed films, TV, video games, Myspace, YouTube, the Internet, porn and other media that is poisoning our kids minds and family values. Everything negative is glorified openly to our kids. And it seems their parents support it all. How can a young mind process this negative input without a responsible message to balance it all?
This nation is also overrun with divorced and unwed single parents - and they seem to be becoming the norm instead of the exception - there is now almost zero shame associated with young girls getting pregnant.
We also have to deal with anger at the people who have failed us, and at ourselves for the situations we have gotten our own selves into.
We have to educate our youth on where their parents and the media failed them so they don't repeat the same pattern and destroy the next generation making them repeat the same destructive cycles of behavior.
I have taken the first step with this film, Diary Of A Tired Black Man. It is the first part of a series of at least three. I will expand the issue to show it is not just black women - but it is all women - and men as well. We all have to learn how to deal with what was not done right in our lives, and how to take responsibility to fix ourselves and make it right. I will do this through media and social programs.
I will work together with social and media partners to create message films and radio and TV programming that is blunt and thought provoking that stands strong in the face of today's mindsets. The message has to have teeth to bite into this negativity that is overtaking our families.
This is an overdue movement that must be taken up now. We cannot do nothing and allow this social epidemic of broken families to further overtake us.
This will be a national movement for all people. The movement will be to reeducate the American family of its responsibilities to itself to stop this self-destruction. This can only be accomplished when each member of the family learns their individual responsibility to the family, and to themselves.
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