the first step towards honouring your dream to become a filmmaker. Within this email I will give you my best advice to help you move forward towards a career as a filmmaker.
1) Get very clear about what you want. When you say filmmaker…do you mean writer/director? Just film director? Writer/director/producer? Do you eventually want to make big budget Hollywood films? Independent films? Documentaries?
Once you get clear about what you truly want from filmmaking as a career, I would suggest you write down some short term and long term career goals for yourself.
i.e. (short term goal) I will write and direct a short film by June 10th, 2010.
(long term goal) I will finish writing my feature film screenplay by July 20th, 2010.
Having career goals will give you a sense of purpose and allow you to make better