Everyone was amazed at the response of the audience to our film. I was nervous, of course, but that's because we've worked on this SO.HARD. I knew that if people saw it...they'd love it.
And yall know I like to go out with a bang.
So yeah...we wanted to straight up sell out at both shows. In order to do this, I asked family, framily and friends who were attending if they'd mind helping us get the word out and baaaaby! They showed up and showed OUT!
As soon as folks hit Miami they hit me up to find out where we were. They came got a t-shirt and bags of flyers, water bottles, silicone bracelets, etc. and hit the streets telling everyone about our movie and letting them know when our screening times were and shortly thereafter I saw pretty much every person walking around with SOMETHING from Team Sizzle.
And the buzz grew.
And grew.
And grew.
Before long...it was all everyone was talking about. Going to see "The Coalition." They had folks out there scanning the QR Code for the trailer, telling them who the actors were, the synopsis of the film. Like...they REALLY showed out. It got to the point where you'd walk up on someone and they'd say..."I've heard about "The Coalition" and I DEFINITELY plan on seeing it." before we even said anything because someone else had gotten to them earlier.
Last I counted...we had about 30 people rocking and rolling on our behalf.
A friend called me yesterday in the midst of the madness I had ongoing and wanted to ask me how I was able to get so many people out there on the ground putting the word out. My answer? I just asked them and they came. They didn't get paid. They just care about me enough to show up because they know I'd do the same.
I am so blessed that my framily is my FRAMILY for real.
My only regret was that I didn't get an opportunity to spend as much time with them as I'd wanted to, but for me it was a work trip and I had a few things on my list that I wanted to cross off so I did what I needed to do in order to do them. They, however, had a blast without me and I am so grateful everyone got along so well and had so much fun.
If it's true you judge a person by their framily...well...King Kong ain't got nuttin on me!
Thank you to my family, framily and friends who came out and supported us. I can't put into words just how very much it meant to me. YALL ROCK!
