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We All Have Things Going On
TW: Suicide and SH.
It’s suicide awareness month. And I have lost a half-dozen colleagues to suicide. This kind of essay is hard to write without sounding trite. Without feeling like Sylvia Plath and a thousand famous alcoholic novelists d...
Stop Telling Me How Hard It Is
Half the industry posts in my feed are about how brutal it is out there right now, and the other half are about how brutal it is out there but/and “here are tips for clawing your way to success!”
I know “everyone’s struggling,” and it cert...
More Useful Than Film School
I recently found out Substack’s algorithm won’t promote you unless paid subscriptions are turned on. So I held my nose and turned mine on.
I tried to make it reasonable — $5/month, or even cheaper at $50/year, which works out to a dollar a...
The Job I Almost Took
Early this year, a friend of mine from film school reached out to say he was steering me towards a job. We are both in The Business and both adjunct lecturers at prestigious universities, so I wasn’t sure which road he was going down. When...
Nobody Gets Into Sundance For Great Act Breaks
A caveat before I begin. I teach for Sundance, Rideback, Humanitas, Almanack, and more, but I have never once been part of choosing the fellows. What follows is purely observational, from the perspective of someone who teaches at these prog...
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