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Category: film

  • fascination with adaptation

    I’m currently enraptured listening to Andy Serkis narrate JRR Tolkien’s The Fellowship of The Ring. It’s my first time through The Lord of The Rings and also my first foray into audiobooks. While my thoughts on the act of listening to a book is a separate blog post, the biggest…

  • “We All Say God”

    Last year, I wrote and directed a short film called We All Say God, which is currently available on YouTube. The film was also recently accepted into the Marina del Rey Film Festival and placed at a finalist in the Malibu Film Festival. A special shoutout to the entire cast…

  • cut your teeth

    Malcolm Gladwell’s Principle of 10,000 hours is well documented, but for those of you who aren’t familiar, the idea goes like this: achieving mastery of a specific skill require an estimated ten-thousand hours of practice. Backed by research studies and social experiments, Gladwell asserts that “ten thousand hours is the…

  • “Trouble”

    Last summer, I had the opportunity to work as the Associate Producer on the short film, “Trouble,” written and directed by Jacob Chase and starring Anthony Rapp and John Rubenstein. The work we do is always worth sharing, but this was a project I was especially thrilled to be a…

  • tunneling to the other side

    Last night, I watched If These Walls Could Sing, a documentary about Abbey Road Studios, on Disney+ and had an absolutely ball. What resonated more than anything was the number of musicians who spoke about Abbey Road Studios with a sense of spiritual awe, as though the space itself is…

  • recent musings

    It’s been a busy couple of weeks. A few highlights:

  • a recipe for chocolate chip cookies

    I was talking to a fellow filmmaker recently who gave me a brilliant metaphor. For years I’ve said that any time I learn a new skill, it becomes another tool in my toolbox. An apt metaphor perhaps, but this filmmaker spoke about the skills she’d developed as ingredients in a…

  • take care of the work

    My dad recently loaned me his copy of The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham, Ron Shelton’s firsthand account of writing and directing one of the greatest sports films ever made. In a beautiful moment of synchronicity, I was listening to the Team Deakins podcast recently, a series…

  • steal around

    In conversation with Brian Koppelman on The Moment, Paul Schrader talks about the elements he stole from a variety of films to make his 2018 film, First Reformed. “The secret of stealing is that you have to steal around,” Schrader says in reference to the various sources of his material.…

  • thoughts from a detective

    In a recent episode of The Moment with Brian Koppelman, writer-director John Hamburg (Along Came Polly, I Love You, Man) touched on a few things that I’ve been turning over in my mind lately. Referencing advice from his therapist, Hamburg says of writing, “Be a detective, not a judge.” I’ve…