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DEFY Just Be Different.

07/05/2026

Safe to say, core memory unlocked.
Happy 250th 4th to you and yours!
🇺🇸

07/04/2026

New York City is on a generational run this year, and it’s only summer.

06/22/2026

Argentine Fans reaction to Messi
Breaking the World Cup
Record

If my 22 year old self could see us now. How sweet it issss.
05/26/2026

If my 22 year old self could see us now. How sweet it issss.

01/03/2026

We didn’t hide the ad. We let the audience in on it.
Because pretending it isn’t branded doesn’t fool anyone.

We teamed up with and to create a mockumentary-style reality format for Shop ESSENCE Live x , inspired by the greats like and other storied IPs.
Built around the sister dynamic between and , intentionally self-aware— making the brand part of the premise and inviting the audience into it instead of talking at them.

Thank you to the cast and crew.
Proud of how this came together.

Written & Directed by
EP/Producer:
EP:
Head Of Production: 
Strategy:
AD:
DP: .charles
Cam Op:
AC:
Gaffer: airyhillfilms
KG: 
Swing
Sound: 
Production Design:
Art Assist: 
MUA:
PA: 
PA: 

Post: 
Colorist:
Sound Design/Post:

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