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Film Courage: If we put together a list of ‘how not to break into the entertainment industry‘, what might those five things be?
Carole Kirschner, Entertainment Career Coach, Speaker & Author: Five [things] how not to get work? How not to get work by Carol Kirschner, five ways:
-Don’t put in the time to develop your craft.
-Don’t reach out to people to find out if they know someone who could introduce you (not a decision maker) but just somebody that might be willing to meet with you for zoom coffee for 10 or 15 minutes.
-[Don’t be] Somebody who does not want to enlarge their community of relationships.
-Don’t be a jerk.
-Don’t ask somebody you don’t know to read your script or get your script to Steven Spielberg or somebody else (we were just talking about this).
-Don’t be generous…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Carole Kirschner spent fifteen years as a television development executive. A former Vice President of Television for Steven Spielberg’s first Amblin Entertainment and a Comedy Development exec at CBS, she’s had the privilege of working with some of the most respected writers in the industry.
Switching to the other side of the desk she became a consultant and created and runs the CBS/Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, which has helped launch the careers of more than eighty television writers of color, including 14 showrunners. Because of her work with CBS she was asked to help writer/producer Jeff Melvoin as he developed the curriculum for the WGA Showrunner Training Program and as the Director has been running the Program for 18 years.
Ms. Kirschner, through her career coaching practice, Carole Kirschner Entertainment Career Strategies (carolekirschner dot com) works primarily with screenwriters who are stuck or need help navigating the political landscape. She recently launched the successful online course, “How to Pitch a TV Show That Sells” and is gearing up for her new online course, “Get the F Unstuck: Break Through and Create Your Ideal Hollywood Career” in late spring. She is also an international speaker and her book, Hollywood Game Plan: How to Land a Job in Film, TV and Digital Entertainment is taught in colleges across the country.
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