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Today's blog comes from Director, Screenwriter, and Producer at EWAV Works Lola Atkins, based in Lon
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Today's blog comes from Director, Screenwriter, and Producer at EWAV Works Lola Atkins, based in London, England.
--------------------------------------------------------------- Some folks say making a movie is like a marmite; you either love it or hate it. The desire to get into filmmaking started a long time before I made my first short docu-drama HUSH in 2003, which got screened at Cannes Film Festival and picked up an award at the UK's BFM International Film Festival. As a child, I was a lover of films and stayed up till the early morning hours, staring at my dad's action movies, watching the works of Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Clint Eastwood on the VHS player. Also, I was quite mischievous, curious, and provocative, whose vivid and wild imagination created a lot of stories; those stories baffled my parents, especially when I used the stories to try to wiggle myself out of a sticky situation. As a child of immigrants, I was constantly reminded that writing wouldn't pay bills or put food on the table; a degree would do just that. So, my artistic and creative buzz, which kept me awake for many nights, slowly flickered out. Fast forward to 2002, with my degree in my back pocket, I fell back in love with my first love - writing. Just before the pandemic in 2019, I shot a short drama, The Likelihood, and in February/March 2020, I shot the short Film and proof of concept for Purple Beatz. I initially intended to use the vehicle to boost my profile and sharpen my craft and skillset in directing and screenplay writing. However, COVID's entrance radically changed that plan, so I returned to the drawing board and decided to stretch the story and take it on a different path - a feature film... [Continue Reading >>]( [Stage 32 logo]( Copyright ©2022 Stage 32, All rights reserved. 2711 N. Sepulveda Blvd. #427
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