Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Importance of Being Outcast: Chaplin’s Circus and the Future of Storytelling

In Alain Aguilar’s first film Cog, which I wrote and starred in, there’s a brief montage of me in London smiling big beside the bronze statue of Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square. The smile was all acting back then (I … Continue reading

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From C to C: My Expedition into (Short) Filmmaking

Back when I made my first film, I was practically devoid of any of the filmmaking knowledge I have now. I’d never read a book on filmmaking, so I relied entirely on others to get my vision from the page … Continue reading

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