Dear Daniel Craig

Dear Daniel,

I came. I saw. I conquered.

ICFF was a success! Major interest in Letters to Daniel. An explosive response to The Guardian! Usually I’m lucky if I make 5 or 6 connections that seem to have any real chance of panning out. I came away from ICFF with 14 solid connections and have already heard back from five with varying degrees of potential.

To say I am glad to be home, relaxing, enjoying lunch with Missy and hanging out with my cousin Rebekah tonight as she works on a novel and I wrap up my to-do  list for the day I have to say recovery is always nice to embrace after a tense and anxious yet glorious week of hard work in the name of making Letters to Daniel and quite possibly making The Guardian a reality  is nice.

Being on my feet, shaking hands, screwing up the courage to talk to the big time speakers and try to get mine and Missy’s work into their hands. Connecting with people who have more money than me who can facilitate our mental health advocacy stories and vision for ending stigma and fostering understanding and healing.

It’s been an awesome time to be sure but now I am ready for some serious rest. People are telling me how impressed they are with how organized I am compared to others. I have to admit I’ve had some wonderful mentors. Ray and Kristina and Del and Theresa. And so many others.

It’s funny that they would call me organized. It is now the following morning. I was dragging yesterday. I am not so sure I am not dragging now lol.

Amazing things are happening to me and Missy and I really can’t believe. But sometimes you really just have to step out on faith and just let go of your preconceived notion of what the the Universe has in store for you.

I have been pushing Letters to Daniel since 2013 in some fashion. Whether it be the blog, the book or the documentary or the script. And at ICFF this it was no different.

But this year our episodic project The Guardian seemed to just rocket into the mainstream consciousness where everyone wanted to see it.

That’s where it seemed the money was going. I wanted to make a project so that’s where our preparation was going to have to go.

Not that it was a bad thing. The Guardian has quickly become a bad thing. Writing as the show runner for a series that seemed to have a direction, interest from the mainstream and a television executive and a producer(s) maybe God and the Universe was trying to tell me and Missy something.

Cindy Bond talked of I Can Only Imagine being a mustard seed seven or eight years ago. Perhaps Letters to Daniel will be mine and Missy’s. And Letters to Daniel will be an Oscar night triumph where we prove the naysayers wrong. And The Guardian will be the major step we take to get there.

ICFF was a triumphant week where 14 solid leads have already transformed into two producer follow-ups this week where I will be talking to one producer over the next two weeks and another today.

I am blessed. I am lucky. I have worked hard. May everyone else be so gifted by the Universe.

Sincerely,

Amy McCorkle