Don’t Upload the 1st Draft
As for the First Draft… If you’re a first-time creator who’s producing your first project, unless you’ve been touched by the Divine or a grandchild of the great Andrei Tarkovsky, don’t publish your first draft on the internet for the world to see. By all means, make whatever it is you’re making, but don’t upload […]
004: Acting
As an actor, in order to obtain a role you must acknowledge the haunting fact that your opportunity is based off of the convenience of someone else’s availability. In 2018, I started my career within the entertainment industry as an actor and found the process of obtaining roles to be one of the most unpredictable, […]
005: Embrace
We all could use a little reminder about self-improvement. So, we will take a journey into The Twilight Zone (1958-1964) … “dodi – do doo – dodi – do doo – dodi – do doo!” The past is a funny thing. It is something we question relentlessly, expound upon overwhelmingly and mellow over for years only […]
The Screenwriter’s Dog
The Writer’s Dog, (Subtext: In most cases, when you are the screenwriter, you are not the actor, the cinematographer, the director or any other occupation.) The responsibility a writer of the silver/iPhone screen should be no different than giving a dog a bone. We as the giver of the bone have to acknowledge once we […]
003: Opportunity
Clichés are wonderful pieces of wisdom because in some way, shape or form they always derive from a source of truth. The cliché I have the most experience with and can attest to its authenticity is, “When one door closes, another door opens.” Alexander Graham Bell Or as skillfully put by Dr. Frasier Crane in […]
002: Avoidance
My generation, AKA: the millennials have a conveniently immediate library of film history built by the gods of cinema spanning the previous century at our finger tips and yet we only seem interested in what ‘the Joneses’ are doing online. Truth be told, I used to be one of those individuals who tossed what I […]
The "C." stands for "Christopher."
The “C.” stands for “Christopher.” I was born in Plano, Texas, grew up in Augusta, Georgia (Home of the Masters) and though I was put in the playhouse theatre system since high school, I have always had a deep love for the arts. As a kid, you wouldn’t catch me without a pencil and pad […]