How do I begin filmmaking?
How do I begin filmmaking?, was a question I asked myself a lot when I was younger. Coming from a working-class family and having grown up on a council estate in London, it didn’t really seem like a viable option for me to pursue for a variety of reasons. However, I have been creating films for over ten years now, and in recent years I have been trying to help other filmmakers, especially those who are just starting out. I’d like to better prepare them by providing advice, encouragement, and cautious insights based on my own experiences. One method I hope to accomplish this is through the book I’m now writing, which will discuss my own five-year journey of creating my debut feature. Other initiatives are in the works to assist, but in the meanwhile, hopefully some helpful information and insights can be found in my filmmaking blog or an interview I did back in 2020.
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“I never went to college or university to study filmmaking”
“I have also always been massively into films from the 60s and 70s, I love how they were crafted. Films like ‘The French Connection’, ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, ‘The Ipcress File’, ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Bullitt’, ‘Get Carter’, ‘Mean Streets’… I could go on and on.”
“It was the work of some home-grown British film directors that inspired me to push on and actually make a feature film.”
Filmmaking Process: “The film took five years to complete. Did you always know it would be a long project, or were there certain unexpected obstacles that lengthened the process?“
“For me it was always a dream and ambition to make a feature film. That is all I wanted to do from a young age and the reason why I wanted to be a filmmaker.”
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Working-Class Filmmakers
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