[Watch the video interview on YouTube here]
The Pitfalls of Automated Outreach
Film Courage: Sometimes these AI emails I find are difficult.
Are you sensitive to tailoring it to the exact person and not just a general email and then press, schedule and send?
Pedro Correa, Actor/Filmmaker: That’s a good question.
I think you want to personalize it as much as you can.
Strategy vs. Scale
Ideally when you’re doing high volume and like trying to reach out to people it’s a pro and a con.
It depends if it’s your favorite producer in the world and you’re dying to work with them, for example.
Diversifying Outreach Methods
I tend to recommend people and really sit and think, How would I get this person’s attention?
No matter what, sometimes that’s not even email.
Sometimes that’s not even online at all.
Sometimes that’s Hey, this person has an office and I would like to write them a handwritten letter.
Spontaneity and Ambition
I’ll never forget when I was 20, I think.
I was young.
I took a spontaneous flight to New York.
I can’t even remember why I wanted to go there.
I remember I saw Casey Neistat who’s a YouTuber.
That was my first kind of real introduction to New York life.
I was like Wow, it’d be so cool to go see New York.
Resourcefulness and Community
I bought a ticket that day and went on a Facebook group and asked if somebody would let me crash on their couch. It was like a couch surfing community…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
BIO:
Pedro Correa most recently co-wrote (with Fabio Frey), produced and stars-in the coming-of-age drama My Dead Dad (2021) executive produced by Declan Baldwin of Big Indie Pictures (Manchester by the Sea). In-front of the camera, he has recurred on ABC’s hit sitcom The Middle (2009), and has worked with the likes of Hulu, Disney, Syfy and more. Behind the camera, Pedro served as director for celebrity short films in the digital divisions of GQ Thailand, Esquire Singapore, Marie Claire Malaysia and Flaunt Magazine. Stars he directed include; Nick Jonas, Ruby Rose, Constance Wu and many more.
My Dead Dad is a story of a young burnout who discovers his estranged father is dead, leaving him the responsibility of managing an apartment complex. With hopes of cutting ties, he’s forced to grow up, learning about the dad he never knew through the eclectic tenants.
My Dead Dad is directed by Fabio Frey, co-written by Pedro Correa and Fabio Frey. The film stars Pedro Correa, Raymond Cruz, Courtney Dietz, Simon Rex, Booboo Stewart, Chris Pontius, and Steven Bauer.
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