In addition to owning FilmMason Productions I'm also an occasional Director, Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound Mixer, Boom Operator, and Cameraman. My origins began in Chicago. It was April 15th 1865 when I began working as a meat packer at the Union Stock Yards. I worked there until October 8th. 1871, the day Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocked over an oil lantern and burned the city to the ground. I was bitten shortly thereafter by a vampire (he didn't like the taste of human blood, but there was a meat shortage due to no one working at the Union Stock Yards because of the fire that Mrs. O'Leary's cow started...on the day before it was to go to the Union Stock Yards...to be slaughtered). Anywho, with my newfound immortality I migrated west via the Oregon trail in a pickle barrel, branched off down the California trail and then down south to the city where moving pictures would eventually be made. I discovered the process for developing film when I spit out a mouthful of formaldehyde (don't ask), which in turn, technically, makes me the father of...oh, nevermind.