What happens when the spirit abandons the body? And what happens when it wants to come back?

This was the question I finally asked myself after four completely different, and completely unsuccessful, drafts of the script that would become Willing. I had struggled vainly to bring some sort of structure into a piece that was all based on a single image: a woman's spirit exploding out of her body, crashing through a high-rise window and escaping into the boundless sky as her former vessel watched helplessly. It looked great in my head, but how do I build a whole movie around that? Special effects are cool, but if they have no story to tell, who cares?

It took a lot of misses before I finally found a solid foundation for my story. And from that came my most ambitious film yet; besides having more special effects than I've ever attempted to take on before, Willing is my first real attempt at directing actors, at establishing characters, and at creating a work of genuine thought and emotion that is more than the novelty of its concept.

And it looks pretty good to me. I hope you'll agree.