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P.A. Bootcamp’s Chuck Canzoneri Claims To Be The Oldest Working Production Assistant.

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My new pal Chuck Canzoneri claims he is the world’s oldest working Production Assistant. Chuck works at P.A. Bootcamp and they have a session coming up June 10th and 11th in North Hollywood. It is a great program, as you’ll learn. I did a guest lecture there once, but have no dog in the fight other than your success. 5 SPOTS […]

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Sound Editor Cory Choy’s Directs His Feature Film “Esme, My Love.”

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Here’s what Film Threat says of my guest filmmaker Cory Choy‘s new film “Esme, My Love”: “Choy morphs his film from slice-of-life relationship drama to jarring thriller with skill, contrasting peace with severity with ease. Paired with a compatible score, this is a solid feat in filmmaking.” And here’s a nice piece about the June

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Live Action Commercials, Music Videos, Animation – Director Alon Isocianu Does It All.

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Filmmaker Alon Isocianu and I discuss his many tools as a filmmaker, the importance of pre-viz and possibitly of soon sharing his treatments, among other topics. Alon’s work is highly imaginative, visceral & visually poetic. I’m a sucker for how Alon blends together elements of live-action, motion design, 3D animation and VFX.  He is also the co-founder and

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Creative Director Jaime Cabrera Asks What’s The Big Idea?

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Jaime Cabrera is an award-winning Creative Director at Innocean. He’s got a wondeful book I devoured called “What’s The Big Idea? An Idispensable Guide To Becoming A Kick-Ass Creative Director.” Somehow Jaime finds time between steady gigs to host the popular podcast “Confessions of a Creatvie Director” – everywhere you pod. Check out Jaime’s site by clicking his name

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Director Steve Fuller Masterfully Fuses Design and Live Action.

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Steve Fuller is an Emmy award-winning Director, whose work showcases his expertise in integration of design and live-action to the production process, coupled with an ability to lead projects from conception to completion. Comfortable in a variety of mediums and genres, Steve’s creative through-line is visual storytelling. His commercial directing credits including major campaigns for McDonalds and

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Commercial Editor Erwin Fraterman Has His Little Farm.

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Little Farm is Erwin Fraterman‘s editorial boutique in Los Angeles, where he and his team can do everything under one barn roof. He and I, along with Thom Reimerink, just did a successful mad dash for RAM Trucks and Razorfish Pubicis to deliver a fully cut, mixed and colored film, with VFX no less, in a mere

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Cinematographer Darrell Wonge’s Journey From The Basketball Court To Behind The Camera.

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Cinematographer Darrell Wonge tells his story from player professional basketbaall around the globe to getting hurt and watching YouTube to learn a new craft. And he’s mastering it fast. Darrell’s quickly gained extensive experience in fashion, beauty, alcohol and sports. Competent in capturing high quality images while displaying confidence and professionalism. Being a former professional athlete

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Filmmaker Digby Masters The Experiential Activation Promo.

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Filmmaker Digby started out as a New York PA and put in his time rising through the ranks on crew, long before DEI was a thing. Now he and his partner Ramon “Ra” Nunez run Baby Lion, A Black and Latino-owned creative production company, bringing authentic, cultural insights to every project. We dissect Digby’s Resident Evil promo, shot live

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Sweetwood Creative CCO and Creativity In Captivity Podcast Host Pat Hazell.

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Showtime declared Pat Hazell one of the five funniest people in America. His 25 years of experience as a writer, producer and director have made him a go-to guy for new American theater. Pat is one of the original writers for NBC’s Seinfeld, a Tonight Show veteran, a critically acclaimed playwright and a contributing commentator to National Public

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Pesky Spec Spot Q&A With Myself and SpecBank’s Dan Sorgen.

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Filmmakers that have taken any of my courses, either online or attended our senssational Commercial Directing Bootcamp or Filmmaker Retreat in Joshua Tree, are welcome to a free zoom Q&A about those spec spots. Dan Sorgen, Copywriter/CD, will join me. Many filmmakers have used his SpecBank.com to find scripts written by agency creatives to shoot.

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