Aswad Issa started making television shows on Public Access in Brooklyn but was given an "indefinite suspension" for consistently demanding better access to editing facilities and being a rebel among many other things. After giving the middle finger to Public Access he went solo and shot a few films and a few music videos and in 2001 met a director who was looking for a cinematograher... this was the beginning of what has become known as Full Circle Filmworks and Aswad's affiliation with Sean Weathers.