Sigmund Freud’s Advice to Filmmakers
Thanks to Angel Granados, a student in the Strategic Thinking class at UCLA that Ken Suddleson and I just finished, for the following summation of important points in that class and Letters to Young Filmmakers:
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LETTERS TO YOUNG FILMMAKERS – Recommendations
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