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Just months into his filmmaking externship, Nelson Kelkar traveled to the Philippines with Film Connection mentors, Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir to learn documentary filmmaking hands-on! So how did it all come about? Nelson...
Film Connection graduate Steven Pitts is clearly dedicated to building the film career he wants to have, brick-by-brick, project-by-project each and every day. Knowing that where there is a will, there definitely is a...
Ever since he was a kid, Joe Paciotti has always been a self-starter when it comes to filmmaking, getting his start when he was just 9 years old “messing around” with a Sony Handycam...
Ofu Obekpa earned a degree in Business Administration and Marketing from The University of Maine at Machias. The business education he received there was solid and Ofu was perfectly poised to embark on career...
Mentor and co-owner of Las Vegas’s 1905 Film Studios, Nelson Ramirez, knows a thing or two about the differences between learning film at a traditional film school and teaching Film Connection students the inner...
Film Connection mentor, producer and writer Ron Osborn, has a career that spans three decades. He’s written for Mork & Mindy, Moonlighting, the 90s cult-classic Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man and the films, Radioland Murders...
Tim Newton had his sights on learning film direction when he started researching his options on breaking into the film industry. “I was researching film schools and it looked like I was going to...
Sandy Stern is a producer, known for Being John Malkovich (1999), Saved! (2004) and Velvet Goldmine (1998). He is also a screenwriting mentor for Film Connection. Here’s an excerpt of a recent interview we...
Meet the powerhouse filmmaking duo, our mentor Dream Team Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir. Based in Hollywood, California, Bennett and Lir are creative, driven and passionate about the work they do and boy oh...
Jamie Reed, Film Connection apprentice under Zac Adams of Skydive Films in Nashville, TN, just finished working on not one but two music videos for Mark Collie & The Boxmasters. (In case you didn’t...
