Its official! We are now a registered company!

Well actually Leechon had been in business since 2003, but wasn’t doing film stuff. I figured since I want to make this project real and profitable, then might as well bring it under the company and systemize it. This way once the endeavor is moving, it wont need me to keep the growth.

I’ve registered leechonfilms.com for the purpose of this website. Empfilms.net will still be around, but will not be the name nor the brand of this company.

The way of the shepherd is not necessarily an easy one, but what lies at the end of the path is surely worth the pain.

I was requested to make a trailer for the upcoming seerah seminar that will be taught in Toronto conducted by AlMaghrib. The request came, only less than a week before I was to leave for hajj. My computer was in limbo at the moment (recovering from a system crash), so I attempted to make it on the house PC (not the best computer for editing). To my luck I ended up losing the project file.

Upon returning from my trip, I took another stab at it. Got about halfway done, only to have my hard drive crash on me! This brought me back to square one. If it wasn’t for one of the Toronto city coordinators I probably wouldn’t have finished the project.

Getting myself together, and spending about 15 hours on the audio track, throwing different video clips and and images together…I ended up with this:

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Lessons:

• When you setup a backup schedule for your hard drive, make sure you activate it.
• Before embarking on a project, make sure you have someone hounding you to get it done! (In an encouraging manner that is)