Greetings from the Bob Marley extended family (sort of)!

Hi steemits! My name is Jesse Lawrence, a British filmmaker, though I’ve recently spent some time in the States, specifically sunny California. When I was a kid in the 1980s I starred in three Bob Marley music videos, One Love, Waiting in Vain and Get Up Stand Up. With my thick, wild dreadlocks (I may grow them back one day) the deal was that I was supposed to represent a young Bob Marley or the spirit of the great man and I guess I did such a good job that for decades people were convinced that I was one of his many sons! But I ain’t, I’m from London born and bred, and grew up on the World’s End Estate. Check out the first and most famous video below, with parts of it shot in my childhood home.

I have a background in award-winning short films, television documentaries and, bizarrely, a romantic comedy I directed called The Knot which stars Mena Suvari (American Beauty). I say bizarrely because my filmmaking roots as well as the screenplays I generate are usually a more gritty affair, I suppose a mix of realism, dark humour and the absurd.

My next feature film is called Road Girl and based on the true story of a teenager who joins a gang and takes to a life of violence before finding redemption by embracing her gay sexuality and making a go of the ‘straight and narrow’ before the streets pull her back. It would be awesome to build a worldwide audience harnessing steemit! Here’s the clip-o-matic trailer:

I’m excited by the potential of steemit. I’ve dabbled in crypto currencies but with its social media aspect, steemit is something new and represents the movement away from traditional, closed club professions like journalism and opens it up to the people. I’ve already read some great posts on here and I plan to run a film-centric series of my own entitled - Obscure but Brilliant: unloved money-losing, movie classics.