Adam Dietrich (with the assault rifle) is talking to my film mom and big sister (Cassie Shea Watson and Ashla Soter) about protection while I listen in. Allan Tsybulnik took this photo.

This isn’t part of the movie — or at least I don’t think so. This is just a couple of hungry zombies goofing around with Allan Tysbulnik in between takes.

This is what I see from the sidelines when I’m not in a scene. This photo includes Cassie Shea Watson, Jesus Garcia, David Bates, Adam Dietrich, and Juan Pablo Segundo. Super nice actors, every one. I am lucky to get to work with them and watch them at work. Allan Tsybulnik took this photo.

Ashla Soter plays my big sister, Juliet, and I play Brandon in the film Ghede Origins. At the beginning, Juliet doesn’t like her annoying little brother very much, but by the end, they are close. That’s good, becuase I love Ashla! Allan Tsybulnik took this photo.

I think I look pretty wicked in this photo. I’m with my on-screen mom Brittany (Cassie Shea Watson), and my two on-screen sisters Taylor Ernzen and Ashla Soter. Our “mom” has been off fighting zombies while we hid in an attic — she looks a little worse for wear, doesn’t she?

LaByron Thomas (on my left), me, Ashla Soter, and Iris Moctezuma were in the kitchen of Iris’s house (her dad is our director) during a dinner break when someone snapped this photo of us. Everyone on set is so nice! It’s a great group of actors and crew members to work with.

Adam Dietrich is the art director for the movie Ghede Origins — and he’s also one of the lead characters, a mercenary captain named Sarge who saves “my” family. He had to fix the robot costume I wear in one of the scenes — it didn’t fit that well. (They had planned to use younger kids for the roles, not a pair of 12-year-olds like me and Taylor Ernzen, I think).

Kela Farmer works non-stop on set to make sure the zombies and victims stay covered in blood and gore. A lot of times, that means carrying around a paper cup filled with movie blood, and touching them up in between takes. Jenin Gonzales starts the movie as a normal person, who is one of the first to catch the virus — as the movie progresses, his make-up changes again and again as his disease progresses. He looks pretty scary in most of the scenes! But he’s a pretty nice guy.