Coming to select theaters and Amazon Prime, Mosaic is an independent film project crafted by an entirely Santa Clarita native cast, all of whom fit the film’s narrative.
“Mosaic, honestly, is a mosaic of me,” said Jamie-Lee Hyde, the film’s director.”It’s crafted from various stories of my childhood, many stories of my family, my parents.”
“There’s elements in the script of things that I’ve said, things that, you know, my best friends have said,” said Hyde.
“Santa Clarita really is the essence of the film. It’s where majority of it takes place because it’s where I come from,” said Hyde.
But of course, nothing comes easy.
“Every challenge that you can possibly think of that a filmmaker would have to deal with. We’ve dealt with. The script was written before Covid, and I had initially planned on making it before Covid, and then that happened,” said Hyde
However, the show must go on.
“Once I actually met one of the actors, I was like, oh my God, I can do this again,” said Hyde.
“In between takes, it’s just laughs. It’s just a sense, a sense of community,” said Finn Franti, who plays Jonas Harding in Mosaic.
“It’s the coolest experience for me, being able to see the story that I had in my brain go from brain to paper to screen, to just like having everybody see what I see,” said Hyde.
“It’s like it sounds cliche, but it’s magic.”
