In late December of 2017, I wrote a short film called Talisman . I'd written a bunch of short and even feature length scripts over the span of a several years, but for some reason, this one felt different to me. I immediately started having conversation with one of my best friends about the new script. It didn't take long before John agreed to read it. It didn't take much longer than that for John to say that he really liked Talisman and to make some suggestions to make the