Advice For Those Just Starting Out

What Ingredients Make A Successful Artist? – Sophia Cacciola

Create it, put it out, that’s the art. You’re an artist now.

Filmcourage

Published

September 30, 2023

[Watch the video interview on Youtube here]

Film Courage: What makes you an artist?

Sophia Cacciola, Cinematographer, Actor, Musician, Director: I think to be an artist is to create. You have to finish something. You can toil away but I feel like until it’s out in the world, is it art? I don’t know? It’s a tree falling in the forest? I think it’s the creation for me, to create it and put it out, that’s the art. You’re an artist now.

Film Courage: What do you think makes someone an artist? A lot of people say they are artists or they are writers, there’s debate If you’re not getting paid for it, are you really an artist? Are you really a writer?

Sophia: I don’t think you need to be paid for it. Throughout history I think people had to have patrons, they had to. The king had to commission your portrait and that’s the only way you’re going to eat and so you do a certain type of art to make sure that you can eat and then you do your own art…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

BIO:

Sophia Cacciola is a Los-Angeles-based producer, director, and cinematographer. With her production company Launch Over, she has made numerous sociopolitical genre feature films that have played at more than 75 film festivals and have been distributed worldwide. Sophia started out in music, most notably as the singer-songwriter-drummer in the no-wave punk band, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.