Write On with 'Send Help' Co-Creators Jean Elie & Mike Gauyo

From Insecure alumni Jean Elie and Mike
Gauyo, Send Help follows a first-generation Haitian
American (Elie) struggling to overcome the challenges in
Hollywood while coming to terms with a recent family tragedy.
Gauyo shares his thoughts on how partnering with the Allblk [All
Black] Channel benefited their overall storytelling process: "At
the core of it, we didn't have to negotiate our Blackness or our
culture in order to make the show... There was already a baseline
of understanding of why our characters acted the way that they
did or did the things that they did; it didn't have to be
explained."


Elie goes on to share how the series came together in the first
place: "The pandemic happened, and [Mike and I] were talking on
Clubhouse about Haitian creatives and how stories get told, and
how we need to not just be in front of a camera but behind the
camera in order for our stories to be told in a way that feels
real to us... A couple of weeks later, we got an email talking
about 'How much you think you need to make the show?'"


Send Help is now streaming on the Allblk Channel and the
Roku Channel.


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