Sacramento Create

This week’s FEATURE is on a Sacramento native film director and writer. We’d like to introduce to you Blue Canyon Film’s very own Sacramento Creative Michael Matsui. Michael was born and raised in the capitol city. He established the now full-service film production business specializing in commercial, wedding, and narrative film work. We would like to send a special congratulations to for winning the best indie film for the . They are now qualified for the annual awards. This is yet another example of Sacramento Creatives meeting and exceeding the bar in their creative career paths. Michael Matsui has been making movies since the age of 11. He started accepting paid work as early as 16 years old. His latest film, You’re On Your Own, Kid, is a horror short that explores the concept of who we see as monsters through the eyes of a young girl being pursued by creatures in her own home. We are super excited to see the short and watch the exciting career of Michael Matsui unfold!

This weeks FEATURE FRIDAY is an Album review for a local Artist ! Shout out to for putting out a complete project - 12 songs deep. Albums seem to be a lost Art these days. It takes dedication and love for the art to put together an entire body of work and to have a concept behind it. Kudos to for putting together an impressive body of music. “Nostalgic” starts out strong with fire 🔥 lyrics on the song “Coming Sooner”. Nostalgic has creative beats on songs like “On My Mind” and “Trailer Music” and creative topics like “Fashion Week” and “Wrestlemania”. ’s lyrics are far beyond basic while at the same time not overly metaphoric. He displays his skill set on Club banger songs like “Holiday, No Links, Pro Club, Got Me Going and Stock Exchange”. He also has Summer Radio songs like “Face It”. Over all this is a really great album and meets and exceed expectations. The only cons are more technical. Consistency of mix and mastering but that’s comparing it to a major label standard. The content of the Album and the time/money spent on creating a 12 song experience outweighs the technical stuff. We are really proud to see SACRAMENTO CREATIVES putting out this quality of work! Keep an eye on !!! He is very talented and this is just the beginning!!! #916

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This week’s Sacramento Spotlight for the week of Oct 11th - 17th goes to the power house songstress and songwriter . Juanita plays an intricate part of Our Sacramento Creative History, starting off her professional career at the age of 18 right here in Sacramento. She started singing with her sisters, who are also dope, at the age of 5! While singing with the “Wynn Sisters” she developed her ear for harmonies, a la and . With tone, vocal placement and pure soul, Juanita has become an incredible sought out Grammy Award winning songwriter and vocal arranger. Landing publishing deals with music publishing and . Juanita started writing for such greats as the multi-platinum singing group / with songs like "If" and "Free", Neo Soul Artist with the songs “Pop Pop", "Sometimes", "I aint Hearin’ U" and “Stay for a while” (Angie Stone ft ), "Don’t come to fast" written by and , "He can" and the Iconic Legend with the song “Every Day is a New Day” to name a few. She also provided background vocals for hit single, “Lately” and Juanita also has her own 2 solo albums “This thing called life” and “U don’t Know” in her catalog as well. For those of you starting out, reach out to those who have traveled the road you are embarking on, they are willing to pay it forward! Juanita has met and set the bar extremely high! Such an honor to spotlight her! SacCreatives go crazy! Look what We have done! Much Respect🙏!

Director Deon Taylor talks about the challenges of making a movie during the pandemic Mark S. Allen chats with Director Deon Taylor about the challenges of making a major motion picture during the coronavirus pandemic.