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Read Some Excerpts From My New Book

I know what you are thinking. You are wondering “why should I go buy a book when I can just download a movie illegally for free?” right?  Well there is a price to pay for everything.  One of the reasons I wrote this book is to advance and preserve the film art and culture that I love — and that other option certainly does not do that! I wrote the book “Hope For Film” (with Anthony Kaufman) because I wanted to share some of the many lessons I have learned producing indie film.

Two recent excerpts give you

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Failure to Address Failure is the Problem

By Beanie Barnes

My favorite philosopher wrote that, in order to understand success and analyze what causes it, we need to study the traits present in failure.  He pointed out that people who fail do not really write memoirs – generally, publishers do not return their calls nor do readers pay for such stories, even if a story of failure is more valuable than the one of success — just ask the authors of the brilliant book, What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, which they had to self-publish.  This disregard of failure happens a lot in film where we often (and only) celebrate success.  That is why it was so amazing that Sundance, at this year’s festival, opened the Pandora’s Box that is “failure.”

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