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Film Courage: Ramon, how old were you when you discovered the author John Grisham?
Ramon ‘Swift’ Sloan, Director, Producer and Writer: Wow, I was probably 16 or 17.
Film Courage: Do you remember the first book of his that you read?
Ramon: Yes actually the first book I read by John was The Brethren and it was a story about three judges that were in federal prison.
They came up with this scheme, it was a mail fraud scheme where they was making this money and they had people sending these checks to PO boxes and stuff.
It was a lot of different elements to the scheme but it was they had a person on the outside that was working with them to pull this whole thing off, I can’t remember some of the details.
I kind of forgot them but the story definitely stuck with me.
I’ve been a John Grisham fan ever since.
Film Courage: What were the checks for what was the scheme?
Ramon: It was a scheme about a guy who…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Ramon “Swift” Sloan is the founder of Swift Motion Pictures; a movie director, producer and writer. The Milwaukee native started his career in entertainment as a book author and publisher. he released his first novel Motivation- Mastering the Game in 2010 His breakout novel is now depicted in the film series Circumstances – which was executive produced by the author himself under Swift Motion Pictures, a venture that derived from a passion for the arts through his schooling of Television & Video Production at Milwaukee Area Technical College. His work in television includes that of cameraman and floor director for Milwaukee Public Television (MPTV) programs : Black Nouveau and Cooking Raw. His entrepreneurial work both as an author and movie producer have been featured in The Source Magazine, Sheen Magazine, Hip Hop Weekly, Cali Post, Don Diva Magazine, and more. He’s also appeared on Tv One’s talk show Sister Circle TV, This Is 50, Fox 6 news , and has been interviewed by countless journalist including the likes of Raro Lae, Margo Spann’s CoCoa Hollywood Live, Kierra M of Dash Radio, and more. Sloan is working on several film projects in various production phases.
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