Some high rollers at Sony thought so much of Michael Mays, a filmmaker from one of L.A.’s roughest neighborhoods, that they donated $25,000 worth of film for his next movie, “Trouble.” He hopes to have “Trouble” wrapped by February when he turns eighteen. [NYT]

I wanna see this when it drops to see what all the fuss is about.

(Did anyone in L.A. see his first short, “Open Door”?)