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P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: Let’s see if you know what this is from? Do you know what this is from?
Film Courage: Patrick, I think you’ve said whatever it is you want to do creatively, you should do it no matter what, even if it’s for free?
P.M.: Yeah oh yes, well in the very beginning I was making films and not thinking about film festivals or I was making them exploring the art. Now 16 years later looking back, I think it caused me to build a fundamental understanding of the moving image and what it is to juxtapose it and how to tell a story with the camera. I didn’t have all this pressure on me in the very beginning. If you love to do something you can figure out how to get something made. You can find friends to pull together and in today’s day and age there’s so many ways to build stuff nowadays with the digital technology with everything at our fingertips that if you want to do it you can get this stuff out there. It’s crazy to even say it right now because it’s so long and it’s almost like we’ve heard it so many times, you have people like Sean Baker who made Tangerine with his iPhone back then. The iPhones now are even better right so everybody’s got these cameras, that’s where that comes from, it’s just the concept of I didn’t think to myself oh I need to do a Kickstarter to raise money to make this thing, just make something and then if you do that you’re going to get people’s attention. I was never even thinking about getting film budgets and then it just naturally built into getting them but I think it’s only because of the drive to never stop. You can make a short film, you can make 50 short films and every single one would look different to a degree depending on what the genre is, how you shoot it, what the story is. If you want to do something, do it and if you don’t do it then it’s only your fault.
Film Courage: Is there one film out there that’s your film school that, when you watch it, it teaches you so much…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
P.M. Lipscomb has passionately made awarding-winning movies since April 23, 2006. He has made three feature films and thirty-six shorts presented at a dozen film festivals across the country. He strives to make work as a means of escape for the audience from the everyday hardships. After receiving the Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2015 for his decade of work in film, he was hired as a documentarian in Toronto, Canada to follow Jacob Barnett. P.M. Lipscomb has also taught film editing at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for a year and learned from experimental filmmakers such as Nathaniel Dorsky. P.M’s first feature film, CLOWNING was released through Gravitas Ventures and is available across many platforms. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, P.M. Lipscomb has now moved to West Hollywood, where he is preparing his next feature film. It is in the genre of horror, and is called Bickle.
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