Paul Yee went to film school at NYU Tisch and worked as a gaffer to pay the bills.  He eventually was able to buy a prosumer camera and start shooting commercials and music videos as a director of photography In this conversation, he talks about what led to landing his first feature film as cinematographer and how that film, The Fits, led to more work, including Joy Ride for Lionsgate and Reality for HBO. For show notes on this episode and more advice on how you can break into the industry,...

#003 - Tze Chun has two shows out in June, 2023: Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai on Max and I'm a Virgo on Prime Video.  He served as showrunner on Gremlins and co-showrunner with Boots Riley on Virgo. In this conversation, Tze talks about how serendipity has served him in his career, but he also talked about his plan early on to write and direct a short every six months and a feature every nine months.  He also lets us know what getting a short and a feature into Sundance did for his...

#002 - Erik Aadahl almost closed the door on his sound editing career a few weeks into his first year at Stanford, but instead he transferred to USC, dropped his biology double major, and his mom finally forgave him when she got to be his date to the Oscars. Erik has worked on all seven Transformers movies, several Godzillas, and Law and Order: SVU. In this conversation, he talks about moving from a staff position to freelance, starting his own sound editorial company, and how he goes...

#001 - After film school, Kim Huston found herself working at a movie theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a long way from Hollywood.  In this conversation, she talks about how she used Linkedin and cold emails to make connections.  Those connections taught her what she needed to know to join the editors guild and helped her get started in her career. Kim has worked on movies like This Is Forty, The Big Short, John Wick: Chapter Two, and most recently Fast X as Lead Visual Effects Editor. For...

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