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Film Courage: Patrick, you’ve been a filmmaker for 15 years?
P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: Yeah.
Film Courage: Was it everything you thought it would be?
P.M.: There’s lots of sides to that question. No one ever goes in expecting the amount of stress that comes with it but I think the reason is because people overlook the idea of management. When you go in to make your own movie (as a director) you’re managing all the personalities on set. You’re managing everybody’s going to come into this and I think we have a fantastical idea of what that would look like. Directing a movie and the reality of it is you really have got to decide if you’re going to put the camera here or a half inch there and everything has to be shifted one way or the other. With that said it’s completely different than what I expected but there’s nothing else in the world that keeps my interest like all the different levels of making a film, as far as writing and shooting and editing and how different all of those are from one another.
Film Courage: Is it easier or more difficult than you anticipated, making movies?
P.M.: On April 23, 2006, that was the day I devoted my life to cinema. I told a friend of mine a dream I had and he responded with You should make movies. Something clicked in my head. At that particular time I was skateboarding a lot and going into sponsored skateboarder route. When I first started making movies for the first five or six years, I only viewed it like skateboarding, taking people, sneaking into a location, filming something and then running away. I would make these films and show my family members them every holiday but I didn’t know about film festivals. I didn’t know about how it could be a living or anything of that sort. I feel like throughout the time you’re making stuff, you start to hear these little nuggets of…(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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