(1) GENESIS!
Yo!
I’m a 20 year old filmmaker and I’ve been making films since I was fifteen, and my goal is to break into Hollywood before the age of 23 . It’s a notorious age because many filmmakers have become successful at or around the age of 23: Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodriguez, Peter Jackson and many more.
On the road to breaking in, there are many different tried and true routes to take: make a feature and hope it does well at festivals, or take years climbing the ranks and hope to prove studios that you’re finally worthy of helming a big studio picture.
Yet, in this new internet age, there are now numerous routes to take to get a ticket into Hollywood. There are people who get agents after posting videos on Youtube. There are filmmakers who become underground sensations because they’ve uploaded their films in bit torrent sites. And now there’s a new trend appearing where filmmakers getting recognized from winning several online video contests and making loads of cash.
I hope to prove that breaking is has become an art form in unto itself comparable to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, where people can follow guidelines and a set of principles that all successful filmmakers instinctively follow. In the coming weeks, I will speak to faculty and interview several filmmakers on the cusp of breaking in and talk to them about their futures in the industry and hopefully start developing the art form.
Of course, there’s no full proof way of breaking in, but there are strategies that can help you along in much the same like way reading Sun Tzu might help you win the war.
