[Watch the video interview on YouTube here]
Film Courage: What’s the difference between obsession and passion?
Steven Shea, Filmmaker: I feel like passion is a magical dream place. It’s like, you desperately want to get to this point in your life or to this place in your life and you’re so passionate about making it there that you’re willing to do anything you can to get to that spot.
Obsession is more so making, forcing a way to get what you need. It’s not necessarily like a magical dream place. It’s a goal that you have to accomplish no matter what. And so, you have to force yourself to do whatever it takes to be able to get to that goal.
But even at the other side of that finish line, it’s not nearly as exciting as getting to fulfill what you’re passionate about and getting the acclaim of that and the satisfaction of that, I think.
Film Courage: A variation of that question would be, what’s the difference between an obsessed filmmaker and a passionate filmmaker?
Steven: A passionate filmmaker is going to enjoy all of the steps that it takes to accomplish what they want.
An obsessed filmmaker has to do it. They’re obsessed, it’s a laser-sighted vision of what they need to accomplish in order to then feel as if they have satisfaction but along the way isn’t nearly as fun as someone who’s living out their passion…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
BIO:
International Award-Winning, STEVEN SHEA has been working in the entertainment industry since he was 16 years old. Starting out in the local television market in the Florida Keys where he grew up, he eventually made his way to Orlando where he founded Abyssmal Entertainment in 2002. His first feature film he wrote and directed, “The Night Owl”, was distributed globally in the Summer of 2005. In 2008, “Hoodoo For Voodoo”, Steven’s 2nd feature he wrote and directed was released on DVD. Steven garnered some awards on the international festival circuit with the horrific short film “2:22” in 2009, which has been distributed through Hulu & FearNet. “Doomsday County” is a horror anthology film that he co-directed and produced that was released worldwide through Troma Inc in 2013. The comedy web series “The Interrogationists” was released in the summer of 2014 through Funny Or Die. His latest feature is the Documentary “Surviving Supercon” that was completed in 2019. Steven had directed over 25 music videos, for such artists as Kitty In A Casket, The Hellfreaks, The Dollyrots, The Attack, The Bloody Jug Band, WhiteQube and The Crazy Carls. As an award winning photographer, Steven has directed and shot such talent as Harrison Ford, Louise Fletcher, Roger Corman, Deepak Chopra, Lin Shaye, Mark McGrath, Denise Richards, Vivica A. Fox, Rick Fox, Juliana Harkavy and many more. He was a Producer on the feature films Last Shift, Rockabilly Zombie Weekend, The Unbroken, Deadly Weekend, Two Days, and Andre the Butcher. As well as Producer for the Disney Channel series Game On!
Steven’s latest film is SURVIVING SUPERCON, a zany behind the scenes look at how a rag-tag Mom & Pop organization pulls off one the biggest pop culture conventions in the United States.
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