Since the shorts that we’re putting on are issue-driven, I think it’s important to highlight issue-drive films. These are the ones that I feel best relate to our shorts and the ones with which I truly empathize.
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As I mentioned the other day, it’s been a rough month on the ‘real life’ side of thing. Work’s been hell, to put it bluntly. But fortunately, friends, progress is slowly being made on Oakdale as well!
Read MoreHappy Spring, everyone! I shudder every time I look at the calendar to see how much time has passed already. I feel like it was just a week ago that I decided to even take on any of this.
Read MoreI had two totally different film school experiences, undergrad and grad school. I want to include the caveat that my undergrad school, American University, has hired new (awesome) faculty and has retooled their film program a bit since I’ve been there.
Read MoreIn 2013, I moved from Orlando, FL to Chicago, IL. I was heading out to attend Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program for Creative Producing in the Cinema Arts + Sciences program. The whole decision to go back to school was kind of weird at the time. Part of me wasn’t certain it was a necessary decision and the rest of me felt so certain, it was like a magnet pulling me in.
Read MoreI’m not going to beat around the bush, I have no work/life balance. Today I worked 9 hours at my full time job and now I’m writing a blog post and getting ready to create some social posts. All in, it’ll be around a 12-14 hour workday.
Read MoreWhen I was in high school, I remember being given the assignment of writing what I envisioned for the next five years of my future and the next ten years of my future.
Read MoreI’ve been asked to write about work/life balance by two women so busy that they make me, a dude with two jobs, look like I sleep all day. But strap in, guys, we’re getting personal.
Read MoreHi, my name is Megan and I am desperately afraid of sharing my creative writing with other people. To this day, I have not shared anything with writer’s group, I think I’m the only one who hasn’t. But that doesn’t stop me from giving feedback.
Read MoreSo your buddy says to you “would you read my (insert: novel, blog, essay, what have you)?”
Congratulations, you’ve entered both the greatest and sometimes the strangest phase of friendship with someone.
Read MoreLook at me, I’m a fancy creative talking about his writing process! How artsy and cool.
Read MoreI’ve been riding with Oakdale 1959 train since the very beginning. I remember when it was called The Emperor, I remember when it was going to be a feature (maybe it still will be), I remember it all. I’ve been in it to win it since the beginning.
Read MoreWhen I was growing up, a lot of people around me were dealing with what is currently referred to as major depressive disorder. In some cases, PTSD, and in one case, schizophrenia. At the time, I didn’t know what all this really meant, depression, mental illness. I thought it was just the normal blues, being sad, and just how people got through their lives.
Read MoreBeing a director this early in the process can be a vague thing. It also meshes together with other responsibilities when you’ve written what you’re directing and when you’re knocking out an independent film.
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