Preston Mayes

Preston Mayes

History

Preston was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up as the middle child, seeking attention is how he first began entertaining. He started acting and singing at the age of eight. Preston's a singer, poet, songwriter and a classically trained actor. His killer vocals and artist style includes both singing and rapping which he calls Lyrical Poetry. He's a theatre kid at heart.

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Preston Mayes

Movies

Sins of a Call Girl
Tycoon
An ex-addict call girl, recently released from prison, returns to the same neighborhood that brought her down to search for her missing son. Her ex-pimp uses her desperation to his advantage by selling her services to a local man that has been snooping around in exchange for the safe return of her son. She accepts, but learns the local man is an undercover cop trying to bring down the pimp for his own daughter's death.
Change
Vincent
An African-American teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8 — the California voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage — is passed. When one of Jamie's friend group initiates the bullying of an openly gay classmate, Jamie uses his wits to try and prevent it, but when things don't go the way he predicted, he is forced to face his fears head on. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Frameline35: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Change is a poetic and moving film which deftly examines one young man's internal identity struggles within the context of the modern movement for LGBT rights, and a high school experience fraught with peer pressure.