Carlito Vida

My film-school was getting attached to a Hollywood production (Born on the Fourth of July and Appaloosa) that comes to Texas and getting a job as an extra. I looked on at the busy sets while they were being filled with Gaffers and their crew, the DP and their crews, blocking and then the Directors working with their actors. Although I do believe that Directing comes with gut instinct, the framing of the shot and all those little split seconds to a few seconds scenes that make up the whole scene and make it intense or dramatic. I don't care to know the camera from the guts to all the buttons, that's why I have a Cinematographer. But I do take the time to know the lenses and how my picture will look with each one. I don't believe in expensive film schools, though I could never afford one. So my only option was to get on a movie set. Make short films, hone my skills with my actors on their performance.
I don't believe in the current Hollywood system and the way it works. I don't believe in paying producers a fee of thousands of dollars up front, when I'm actually trying to find funds, I don't want to be giving funds away, you will put your fee in the funds YOU RAISE. That's crazy giving thousands of dollars away before you even begin to work.
God! I'm looking for a Lawrence Bender in a producer who took a gamble on a Dead Broke Quentin Tarantino before he BECAME QUENTIN TARANTINO and they made "Reservoir Dogs" together. Which Tarantino's resume looks like mine before he ventured out on the full feature length film. His beginning starts off according to a google search.
He first began his career in the 1980's by directing and writing "Love Birds in Bondage" and then writing and Directing and starring in the black- and-white "My Best Friend's Birthday". a partially lost amateur short film which was never officially released.
My resume looks the same.
I have an IMDB but never really cared to add my short films, because they are not Feature Length films. But somehow one of my short films "AN EXCERPT FROM" were added and an IMDB profile was created for me under Anthony Barajas, my real name. Go figure.
I go by 3 names, AKA
Antonio Z .Barajas
Carlito Vida
Tony Vida
But I'm sticking with one here on out, Antonio Z. Barajas

I didn't get involved in Hollywood, though I could have. I wanted to be the next Steven Spielberg, but my friends who work in the Hollywood industry warned me about wanting to become someone that big. I now see today what they mean. I just want to make movies.

My short films include: "Saving Darfur", "The Prophets Song", and "An Excerpt From"
I have written over 10 screenplays, which I have tons of ideas for stories, but the ones that really took off in my head found footing, and made it into a screenplay.
I went to a community college and studied Stage Directing for 2 years, which was very interesting. I was the Light Board operator for "Bram Stokers, Dracula".