Surviving and succeeding in the film industry!
Freelancing can be wonderful. It can also be highly challenging, especially in the film industry. Working as a freelancer can offer a great deal of freedom if you can handle unpredictability. We’ve seen recently that ‘secure’ jobs often aren’t that...
Difficult people are a fact of life in the film industry. Whether we work on set or off, it helps our careers and sanity to hone our skills in dealing with them. If you’ve done an entire show without having...
It can be challenging finding success as a freelancer, especially in the highly competitive film industry. However, each small step you take to build your career can have a powerful effect in the long run. While there isn’t a precise...
The past year has taught us all some important lessons about ourselves and our industry, whether we wanted to learn them or not. Having our world turned upside down overnight will do that. But the end of the pandemic is...
The film industry needs to put more emphasis on mental health. Everyone who works in the industry knows that it’s a high-stress business with erratic work schedules and unemployment periods that can last for months. This past year the pandemic...
The current movies that are up for award consideration this year are not what I would have expected from a year like 2020. This past year has been a train wreck crashing into a dumpster fire for many of us....
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