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The TRUTH Assignment

My biggest takeaway is so many amazing film makers actually did start off with a hidden super low budget. I actually thought Christopher Nolan's first film was Mememnto. I was sitting in a screenwriter workshop years ago and the dude said your first film has to be as good as Memento! (Or Reservoir Dogs or Clerks) A bit daunting.

My biggest concern/challenge is our age now (50s, you just get tired) and we left our feature film ambitions die through inaction (and life's other challenges). I still have creative dreams, I wrote two episodes for a sitcom that aired on Paramount + and Australian Network TV during the pandemic and years ago did feature documentary and an award-winning web based comedy; my husband works in corporate and has a sci fi based YouTube channel but I always thought we'd make a feature and can't understand why we never did, like it was too hard when it takes just as much work to make our shorts. Maybe it was too psychologically daunting and we've never been good at knocking on doors hat in hand.

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