We create our art in a neat little bubble. For the writers of the bunch, that bubble is very small. Actors might have one or two people in theirs (if they regularly need scene partners and/or...

Now that we’re slowly-but-surely beginning to emerge from the craziness of the last year and a half, I want to talk to you about an idea that’s kept coming up during these...

Throughout your career, people will ask you to work for free. And I mean that literally. There is no point in your career at which people will stop asking you to work for free.

It is,...

Whether you’re a novice or an old pro, you know you need to always be working on your chosen craft, correct?

But what that looks like at different stages of your career can vary wildly.

When...

Networking. That thing that trips people up, turns people off, and makes creatives want to run for the hills. (And not the Hollywood kind.)

I’m not sure where the current working idea of...

Your film career should not be your side hustle.

I repeat:

YOUR FILM CAREER SHOULD NOT BE YOUR SIDE HUSTLE.

Even if it takes up a lot of time. Even if it’s not paying you (yet). If...

Filmmakers. Actors. Screenwriters. All-around-creative types.

You all make art. Which means you all are very in touch with your emotions, since your work is to evoke an emotional response in...

I’m gonna say something potentially triggering. (Especially since I regularly host free programs.)

You can’t “free panel” your way to a film career.

Now I know you...

A few weeks ago, while I was watching the Oscars, it occurred to me how much events like this really drive home the notion that we all have to be uniquely gifted (and good-looking) in order to be...

Fraud and theft are prevalent in almost, if not every industry, and are especially targeted at passionate creatives. Unfortunately I’ve learned this through harrowing personal experience.

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