A week in which I achieved some things.

I fear I have been in danger of exploiting the melancholic recently. Now witness a change. This is a short blog - I don’t have any big thoughts on things, I just want to toot my own horn for a minute. Then you may keep scrolling.

Those of you that have followed my career in the last few months will have seen some fairly incessant posting about some film or other. A timeline: in January last year, I got a place on an invitational advanced writing course at Strasberg. Then, because I’m a talent of the ages, I made it through to the second round of classes; a “towards production” type deal where I had to pitch my script to investors (the school). After that, we had a few weeks of getting the remaining films ready for production, whereupon my script was chosen to receive the funding from the school to turn it into a short film. Then we made the movie, beset upon from all sides by budget problems, stylistic disagreements and other, vaguely typical filmmaking stuff. Then post production, yada yada, and now BOOM, ein moviefilm! We premiered last night in West Hollywood at the Lee Strasberg Institute, and I have woken up to the kindest and most awesome-est texts from people that went there and saw it. Damn, what a moment! The next couple of days will become a flurry of festival entries, and marketing prep etc…but, if I may, I am just going to bask in the radiant glow of my first film premiere (that I didn’t attend because flights are expensive and this industry doesn’t pay anything).

I’ve got new headshots, I’ve got a movie that is getting some amazing reception: and that means a new showreel is inbound. For now, at least, all is good with the world. I feel like the world is my oyster. I am aware that everyone who releases a film must feel the same, and that feeling will slowly be eroded by nothing coming of anything over the next year. BUT - that is irrelevant. Let the feelings that will come, come. And let the feeling that is present, stay - and I think that is how to face this industry. Keep your highs, ride your waves, enjoy your moments in the spotlight, however small it is. Shit will get tough, and it’ll be harder if you haven’t enjoyed these moments first.

Here’s one of my new headshots that encapsulates my feelings at the moment. Go make art, and love doing it!