How did you get into directing?I got chucked out of school and at that time my mum was a mature student studying Multimedia at Southend college. It meant I had to go to classes with her, which was great as I got play around with the equipment. There a lecturer showed me his short film,…
How did you get into directing?I first started directing in high school TV production elective courses and wound up working in feature film, TV and commercial production and development as soon as I was able to earn internship credit during college. After a few years of working on major budget projects, I realized I hadn’t…
How did you get into directing?I was born and raised in Maine and moved to New York in 2000 to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. My thesis short, Vacationland, screened at film festivals all over the world, including the Student Academy Awards. After I finished film school, I began working as…
How did you get into directing?My entry points were Goonies, The Dark Crystal, Bad News Bears, and Star Wars. I wore those VHS tapes OUT! But it took me a really long time to figure out that making movies could be an actual job. (There were not a lot of filmmaking role models in South…
How did you get into directing?I was initially interested in producing, but I started making time lapse and stop motion videos in college. Some of those videos won awards and were well received, so I slowly transitioned into the creative side and haven’t looked back since. What is your most recent project?Most recent project was…
How did you get into directing?I came to directing through performance: Acting was my first love and I was fortunate to start working professionally at seventeen. I collaborated with various directors, each of whom had a distinct approach—I became increasingly interested in directing as a craft. Making my first short Tryst A Paname was an…
How did you get into directing?Made some music videos and films on our own and then moved to LA to try to make a go of it. What is your most recent project?A music video for Skylar Grey, and before that a viral advert in the UK. What is the best part of being a…
How did you get into directing?I didn’t get into directing, it’s always been a part of my life. When I was a kid, my family used to go to my Aunt Marlene and Uncle Bob’s for Christmas Eve. They had an old VHS shoulder-mounted camcorder, and though I was only seven, they’d let me lug…
How did you get into directing?When I was a kid, I would spend hours in my room making “books”—just pages torn from the notepads my mom brought home from work, folded in half and stapled along the spine. They were rudimentary stories, done in words and pictures-–a spoof on the latest blockbuster, police fighting crime…
How did you get into directing?I was interested in film at a very young age; the images, stories, acting and the medium itself… to me everything about it was exciting. I grew up in Buffalo, New York and Johnson City, Tennessee. My family wasn’t in the business and neither place had a substantial film community….