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Post Film School Survival Handbook?

News flash: No one hands you a Post Film School Survival Handbook when you graduate.  You have to wing it.  But wouldn't it be nice?  Not just for financial and job search issues, but for the emotional dilemmas too.  This is an entirely new and odd phase.  Expect a few existential ponderings.  Seriously.I have to remember that I did not just graduate from film school.  I graduated from my academic existence.  Twenty-two years of school in the fall and work or play in the summer.  Well, it's fall again.  And it's still a bit strange for me that I am...

I'm Starting Over

Today, I'm starting over. When Fox Movie Channel first asked us to post for a blog, I didn't really know where to begin, so I figured I'd start at the beginning. Well, today I shot my last episode of Life After Film School and though it feels like an end, it also seems like the perfect place to begin. I mean, the show is called "Life After Film School" and we've spent the last year asking our guests what we should learn before we graduate and what to expect from "life" after. For all five of you who have actually...

I'm Ready to Be a Film Student

Distinct memory: I am four, maybe five years old. It's past dark, and I sit in front of the TV on the bland gray carpeting of my suburban home as my older brother enters the house. He's old enough to drive, and brought something back with him from the night. It's a rectangular black case with a red insignia in the center. Joe holds it up and tells me that I'm going to watch it. It's Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, and from here on I will tell every teacher, family member, friend, and friend's parent that, when I grow up,...