Fortes is the writer & director of A Mother’s Will. A graduate of Columbia College Hollywood, he’s worked as a video editor for companies such as Multivision, 526 Films, and Deutsch LA Advertising. He has also tried his hand at acting. His first role was a terrorist for TLC’s TV Series Expeditions To The Edge. He was also featured as a patient on Untold Stories of the ER. On film, he played a juvenile thug in the indie film, Faith Happens and was even cast as a cannibal drummer in Disney’s second installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.