When Mark initially moved into our house, we bonded instantly over art, film, and decorating tips.  Over the next few months, we became close friends, sharing embarrassing stories, sexual escapades, and the mundane minutia of our daily lives. 

When Mark did finally tell us the story of his past – a story wrought with drug and sexual abuse, attempted suicide, severe homophobia and, ultimately, transformation – we knew that we were in a unique position to tell Mark and Clair's story with a degree of intimacy rarely found in documentary film. We also knew that by telling this story, we could perhaps help others to look past their personal judgments and get to know the singular and indestructible bond that defines Mark and Clair.

RED WITHOUT BLUE is particularly unique in its rejection of the concept of detached filmmaker observing a subject through a lens.  Our intention is to make the film Mark would have made for himself had he been a filmmaker.  Thus, RED WITHOUT BLUE is a complex and highly intimate journey portraying the evolution of the relationship between Mark and Alex and eventually Mark and Clair.

As both filmmakers and friends of the Farley family, we had a great responsibility to make an authentic and honest film that refrained from exploiting their singular story. The Farley's had faith in us from the very beginning, regardless of the fact that this was our first film. For us, the greatest success of RWB is the fact that the Farley family is proud of our work.