Funkface: Writer, Creator, Musician, Visionary Storyteller whose work blends spirituality, history, mystery, poetry, science fiction, psychological horror, and social commentary into bold cinematic experiences.
Before entering film, Funkface built a career in music as the creator of da Funk of Brotha’Hood. He later became a solo artist signed by Gaff Music, a subsidiary of Sony Music and sponsored by Burns Guitar. Throughout his musical journey, he shared stages with renowned artists including Fishbone, Sublime, Long Beach Dub All Stars, Lil’ Kim, Average White Band, Biggie Smalls, Scarface, Ice-T, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Fernando Saunders, Luke Skywalker, 2 Live Crew, and many others. He also collaborated with notable producers and writers: Laurie Ashbourne, Lenore Kletter, the late Neal Lemlein, and Kip Collins.
After years of performing, writing, and creating through music, Funkface expanded his storytelling into film, bringing with him a voice shaped by rhythm, philosophy, spirituality, imagination, and lived experience. As he prepares to launch a film website dedicated to his upcoming movie, Funkface emphasizes the importance of African American women in his storytelling.
As the creator of Funkface Legacy, Funkface develops stories that challenge audiences to think beyond the obvious, particularly regarding the representation of Black women. His work explores faith and doubt, good and evil, judgment and redemption, history and identity, technology and humanity. Rather than offering simple answers, his narratives invite viewers to wrestle with difficult questions and reach their own conclusions.
Funkface’s Unique Way of Writing
Funkface writes from a place where story, spirit, history, warning, humor, pain, and imagination all converge. His writing does not follow a straight path just to entertain. Instead, it flows like memory, like prophecy, evoking feelings before the audience fully comprehends its depth.
What makes Funkface’s writing unique is the way he builds worlds around meaning. A character is never just a character. A line is never just a line. A moment can carry history, faith, culture, trauma, laughter, judgment, and a question for the audience to answer.
In 92%, that uniqueness is evident in how Black women are not depicted as victims waiting to be saved; instead, they are portrayed as witnesses, carriers, protectors, truth-tellers, and living proof of what the world often refuses to see. Funkface imbues these characters with weight, dignity, stubbornness, wisdom, and power.
His storytelling seamlessly blends cinematic drama with spiritual reflection and audience participation. He does not just want viewers to passively watch the story; he urges them to engage, remember, converse, and reflect on where they stand.
That is the Funkface Legacy style: bold, emotional, symbolic, unpredictable, and crafted to leave the audience questioning:
"You didn’t see that?"
Whether through music, poetry, film, hidden messages, spiritual symbolism, historical memory, or audience participation, Funkface continues to create experiences designed to ignite thought, emotion, and discussion. At the heart of his work is one simple challenge:
"You make the call."
So here we stand.
