Higgsfield Filmmaker Grant: Why I Want It
Higgsfield Filmmaker Grant: Why I Want It
In late 2024 I had a heart attack. When you're lying in a hospital bed running the math on what you've done with your time versus what you wanted to do with it, the answer gets very clear very fast. Life is too short to not do what you love.
I started a video company. in January 2025. No film school. No crew. No industry connections. Just a production studio, an obsessive drive to learn, and the conviction that if I was going to bet on anything, it should be on myself.
I'm completely self-taught. Everything I know about filmmaking, I've learned by doing — watching tutorials, studying other creators, running thousands of generations, and putting in the hours to understand why a shot works or why it doesn't. It's been an upward climb every single day since I started, and I haven't slowed down once.
This reel is special to me. Every video playing on that wall of monitors is a real project — shorts and series I've actually produced, including an educational dinosaur series for kids. Those aren't placeholders. That's also my work.
I put a lot of focus into consistency and craft. If you look at the cables running across the floor to the chair, they hold up from the wide shot, and the overhead- different angles, same geography. That kind of detail matters to me. I also leaned into my After Effects work for rotoscoping and masking, because the pipeline isn't just generation — it's what you do with the output to make it yours.
Here's the honest part: I know there's a ceiling on what I can teach myself. I've pushed it as far as I can on my own, and I'm hitting the wall where I need to learn from people who are better than me. The Higgsfield team is pioneering the path for AI video. The creators in this program are the ones writing the playbook the rest of us are going to follow. Getting two weeks of direct feedback, live sessions, and access to that level of knowledge would change the trajectory of everything I'm building.
I'm all in. I have been since January. This grant would let me take everything I've learned on my own and multiply it with everything I can't learn alone.