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Description
Becoming a director is not just about making a film, webseries,
commercial, or music video. The opportunity to direct for television is
not a given because you've successfully completed a project in another
medium. Turning your passion into your profession requires the ability
to make transitions at the exact moment a pivot is needed, with
creativity and confidence. Chatmon's book helps directors across all
mediums shape their career with targeted anecdotes, worksheets, and
other resources, all of which fall into three designated categories:
How-To, Self-Help, and Inspiration.
commercial, or music video. The opportunity to direct for television is
not a given because you've successfully completed a project in another
medium. Turning your passion into your profession requires the ability
to make transitions at the exact moment a pivot is needed, with
creativity and confidence. Chatmon's book helps directors across all
mediums shape their career with targeted anecdotes, worksheets, and
other resources, all of which fall into three designated categories:
How-To, Self-Help, and Inspiration.
Product Details
Publisher | Michael Wiese Productions |
Publish Date | January 03, 2022 |
Pages | 256 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781615933310 |
Dimensions | 8.8 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
With a deft ability to balance both half-hour single camera comedies and one-hour dramas, Pete Chatmon has directed episodes of HBOMax's The Flight Attendant, Insecure, Silicon Valley, and Love Life, Netflix's You and Atypical, ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Black-ish, A Million Little Things, Station 19, Mixed-ish and Single Parents, CBS's All Rise and The Unicorn, Starz' Blindspotting, FX'sIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FreeForm's Grown-ish, TBS's TheLast OG, OWN's Greenleaf, and the Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest. He is also in development on The Education ofMatt Barnes with Showtime, for which he will direct the pilot and serve as executive producer.
His debut feature as writer/director, Premium, starred Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper, and premieredon Showtime after a lim- ited theatrical run. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed 761st, a documentary on the first Black tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Andre Braugher. He received the Tribeca Film Institute "AllAccess" Program's Creative Promise Narrative Award for the heist screenplay, $FREE.99. Through The Director, his Digital Studio, he has directed, shot, and edited content for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 brands.Chatmon's career began in 2001 with the Sundance selection of his NYU thesis film, 3D, starring Kerry Washington. His most recent short film, BlackCard, premiered on HBO, and his narrative podcast, Wednesday Morning, engaged voters around the 2020 election. He is developing several episodic concepts and feature films while booking episodes for the upcoming cable, broadcast, and streaming seasons. His podcast, Let's Shoot! with Pete Chatmon is available on YouTube, iTunes, and all podcast platforms. Follow him on Instagram @pete- chatmon and @letsshootwithpetechatmon
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