Preface: Last month, in August, we were invited to screen our previous short film, Life With Wifey, at a pop up event in Los Angeles called The Great Film Club. This new community of filmmakers showcases short films every month, so it was a great opportunity to watch our finished film for the first time on a big screen in front of our peers. I’m […]
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Filmmakers now have access to a charcuterie board of new AI tools. You can fire up ChatGPT and there’s a writing partner immediately by your side. You can use machine learning as an Assistant Editor, and boom, you’ve automated otherwise tedious editing tasks. I mean, for a poor creative like myself, having a robot-friend can really help enhance my low budget productions. So, in our […]
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More than a decade ago, I had my own production company. We were a vendor for Google TV Adwords (now defunct) and got a lot of requests from a variety of businesses around the country: tech, pebble tiles, wine, jewelers, software—you name it. We were pumping out a diverse mix of short, 0:30 spots for broadcast television and having a great time. One morning, I […]
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Yes, I was born with a weird face. But good news for you, I’m blessed with the ability to cover it up with a beard. I keep hair on my face for the following reasons: Nevertheless, there comes a time in my yearly beard journey when it just gets to be too much. It starts getting itchy, or in the way, or caught in my […]
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The global pandemic was a bummer. Everyone was at home, twiddling their twiddles. So in early 2021, in the middle of covid spikes, I was pacing around my living room. How could I hang out with my filmmaker friends and make a short film while avoiding the plague? I knew the following parameters needed to be in place: The answer? A short film which takes […]
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Hi Friends, here are a few work projects from Q1 2023 as well as some life updates! Get Creative with Less 2023 started off weird. In fact, it’s still weird. The economy is wobbly and budgets are conservative. Layoffs are happening all around us and it seems like everyone is holding onto their butts. Nevertheless, pilots know how to fly in turbulence, and similarly, our […]
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To commemorate every World Cup for the last decade, I’ve purchased a 4-pack of vuvuzela’s on Amazon and handed one to each of my children. And every time, my wife has thrown them into the trash without our permission. Unsure why. Also, rude. This year, before my wife could find all of them, my daughter and I hid a blue one and made this film […]
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Bringing people into your creative vision is hard. How do you do that? Well, you can wave your arms around like I’m doing in the pic above. But that only works if you’re JLO’s dance choreographer. For me, as a Writer and Director at LinkedIn, this happens through many phases of pre-production like: briefing, scripting, location scouting, and more. But for this post, I’m going to […]
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Making a short is hard and expensive, so if you’re in a position like me where your kids have already taken all your money, why not put them to work! With their endless energy and ability to never stop talking, they’ll make for some great unpaid talent. So if you’re trying to upskill with some filmmaking R&D, forget calling Tom Hanks, because your kids will […]
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I’m a brown guy who works in tech. I’m not an engineer. When people find out I’m actually a filmmaker, their brains short circuit like: “Wait, you’re not an engineer?” Okay, hi, yes, I see the confusion. I mean, I do fit the bill – athleisure, laptop, caffeine addiction. But no, I’m not an engineer, but I do work in tech – specifically, I’m a […]
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