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How To Write Complex Characters: Overview Of The Enneagram — Jeff Kitchen

Film Courage: Jeff, what is an enneagram and how does it help a writer create complex characters? Jeff Kitchen, Dramatist / Author / Founder / Consultant: The enneagram is a really valuable tool. It’s a personality profiling system that is a mix of ancient wisdom about human nature and…

Enneagram

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How To Write Complex Characters: Overview Of The Enneagram — Jeff Kitchen
How To Write Complex Characters: Overview Of The Enneagram — Jeff Kitchen
Enneagram

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Please Hollywood Realize That It’s Not Going To Work — Chris Gore

Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: Please, if you’re a studio executive and you are watching this, everything is so corporate. What did Francis Ford Coppola say? Factory filmmaking. Just take the drivers from Fast and the Furious and put them in the Transformers cars. I miss loving Star Wars…

Film

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Please Hollywood Realize That It’s Not Going To Work — Chris Gore
Please Hollywood Realize That It’s Not Going To Work — Chris Gore
Film

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Why 99 Percent Of Movies Today Are Garbage — Chris Gore

Film Courage: Would you say that 99 percent of all movies today are garbage? Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: In an age where most movies are referred to as content, I would say that 99 percent of those movies are pretty…bad. I always try…when I say 99 percent I…

Film

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Why 99 Percent Of Movies Today Are Garbage — Chris Gore
Why 99 Percent Of Movies Today Are Garbage — Chris Gore
Film

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Artists Don’t Have To Believe In Themselves To Have Success — Brad Rushing

Film Courage: How do you keep faith in yourself and in your craft during turbulent times? Brad Rushing, Cinematographer: Boy is that a good question! Talk about dirty laundry. I have this terrific career coach. Her name is Erica Wernick and she’s really fabulous. You should interview her. She’s…

Artist

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Artists Don’t Have To Believe In Themselves To Have Success — Brad Rushing
Artists Don’t Have To Believe In Themselves To Have Success — Brad Rushing
Artist

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If You Can’t Answer These 6 Questions You Don’t Have A Story — Glenn Gers

Film Courage: How do you define story? How do you teach it to clients and students? Glenn Gers, Screenwriter: I think the basic idea of a story is that you’re going to be following a character or characters. It’s entirely possible to tell the story of multiple characters. You…

Writing

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If You Can’t Answer These 6 Questions You Don’t Have A Story — Glenn Gers
If You Can’t Answer These 6 Questions You Don’t Have A Story — Glenn Gers
Writing

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How A Bad Day Making A Movie Got Worse — Ramfis Myrthil

Ramfis Myrthil, Film Producer, Film Consultant and Speaker: Sometimes you work on a production and after you’re done you just don’t want to produce anymore. That’s how I felt after this… Film Courage: Let’s say you’re on day four or five of production, long hours, maybe there’s been issues…

Film

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How A Bad Day Making A Movie Got Worse — Ramfis Myrthil
How A Bad Day Making A Movie Got Worse — Ramfis Myrthil
Film

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·1 day ago

7 Lessons On Selling A Book — Anna David

Anna David, Publisher, Author, Speaker, Podcast Host, and Television Personality: The tragedy I see is people work really hard on their books and then they pay attention to it for a week and then they move on to the next. That book is there for the rest of your…

Books

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7 Lessons On Selling A Book — Anna David
7 Lessons On Selling A Book — Anna David
Books

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·2 days ago

Wrong Ways To Introduce A Character — Troy DeVolld

Film Courage: What are the right ways and wrong ways to introduce a main character? Troy DeVolld, Producer/Author: I said earlier that backstory isn’t always story. If you are slavishly devoted to spelling out everything that’s happened to a person up to the point that you meet them for…

Writing

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Wrong Ways To Introduce A Character — Troy DeVolld
Wrong Ways To Introduce A Character — Troy DeVolld
Writing

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·3 days ago

If You Want To Be A Filmmaker You Better Learn This — P.M. Lipscomb

P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: One thing I love in cinema that Christopher Nolan does is he’ll take these opening images that have one meaning and then when you watch the film a second time, they have a second meaning. Film Courage: Patrick, you’ve been a filmmaker for 15 years. P.M…

Film

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If You Want To Be A Filmmaker You Better Learn This — P.M. Lipscomb
If You Want To Be A Filmmaker You Better Learn This — P.M. Lipscomb
Film

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·4 days ago

What Beginning Filmmakers Should Know About Short Films — Kim Adelman

Kim Adelman, Author/Filmmaker/Instructor: Often in film festivals they’ll tell you The ticket to buy at the film festival is the short compilations because that’s where the really most exciting filmmaking is happening. Film Courage: What is a short film? Kim: What is the short film is a really good…

Film

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What Beginning Filmmakers Should Know About Short Films — Kim Adelman
What Beginning Filmmakers Should Know About Short Films — Kim Adelman
Film

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