SMS Novel

By Jomo K. Johnson Founder, SMS Novel Films I still remember the feeling of writing my first screenplay at sixteen years old. Not the screenplay itself. Honestly, most of it was probably terrible. Overwritten dialogue. Unrealistic scenes. Characters saying things no actual human being would ever say out loud. But that wasn’t the point. The point was that, for the first time in my life, I realized stories could move people. I realized movies weren’t just entertainment. They were sermons....

By Jomo K. Johnson, Founder, SMS Novel Films "The most powerful thing a story can do is make you feel less alone. The second most powerful thing it can do is put you in a room — or a Zoom call — with someone who felt the same way." Let me be honest with you from the jump. I didn't come up with the idea for SMS Novel Films' Faith-Based Watch Party format because I sat in some Silicon Valley boardroom studying market analytics and consumer behavior reports. I didn't pivot after reading a...