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Film Courage: I’m wondering what you mean by you’d lived the life of a 50-year-old by the time you were in your 20s?
P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: What I meant in that context is where I came from there’s a lot of rough individuals and I gravitated toward those rough individuals on my own accord. As a young child there are some little rough patches in the household but whose household doesn’t have those rough patches? Obviously it kind of leads you down that path. I started skateboarding, a very large majority of the people I was spending time with started purchasing and other things and where I’m from there was just a lot of violence that was happening. I was pulled into this world where especially the time period I grew up in you had to be a specific kind of tough guy to get through that world. I was really born this artist but what that means for me is seeing the world from a particular vantage point. It might sound like a positive thing but where I came from it made you a target. You ended up being somebody that people were after and not even in a bullying context but just the groups of people that I surrounded myself with were such negative characters. I had no idea where I was going. A large majority of people I grew up with unfortunately have passed being from Cincinnati, Ohio. There’s a lot of things have torn that place up but when I discovered filmmaking it led me into a place that I looked at all these crazy episodes that I went through (some of which I’m writing into) my take on…(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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