Van Ditthavong, Filmmaker/Photographer: How do you get a sitter to give you a pose that you like? It took a lot of time, it deals with trust and how you gain that is like giving something from yourself to the sitter. You can’t always take, take, take…
Film Courage: What have you found is the best way to make money as a filmmaker?
Van: Get involved in anything that’s possible that will help you get better as a filmmaker whether it’s editing, PAing, writing. Shoot…taking any job because that helps you as a writer. Be a security guard, be a bus driver, be an Amazon Prime delivery[person] because you’re building different experiences and you could write about that and still have a living and only until you reach that kind of threshold where you can make a sustainable career with your art or with your filmmaking but when you’re starting out you take as many jobs as you can. Teach if you can (teaching helps), any kind of thing. I think you just have to hustle. Find any job to survive, pay the bills and if you can do that, that actually teaches you how to get a film made because it’s not getting a film made, it’s the exact same way because it’s not easy. You have to use every little ounce of your creativity, your experience, your inexperience just combine it and will it to happen. If you have to…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
Writer/Director/Photographer Van Ditthavong is the founding partner and executive producer of goPOP FILMS – a creative content studio and production company. He has taught at the New York Film Academy (Los Angeles) and UCLA Extension – where he received the 2015 Outstanding Instructor of the Year honor for the Visual Arts Department. His latest project is his feature directing debut, ALL ROADS TO PEARLA (starring Alex MacNicoll, Addison Timlin, Nick Chinlund, and Dash Mihok) and produced by Red Entertainment and goPOP FILMS.
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