#15 - Interview with Larry Laboe, Co-Founder of New Filmmakers LA. - Pt 2

Welcome to Pitch. For this episode, Leah and I are gonna finish our chat with Larry Labeaux, cofounder and executive director of New Filmmakers Los Angeles, an organization championing filmmakers worldwide. If you haven't listened to the first part of our conversation with Larry, make sure to check that out. Today, we're gonna start where we left off. Larry is outlining part of what makes being a filmmaker just so difficult. Then we get into things we can do as filmmakers to ensure we're staying diligent about our careers and our progress in the industry. Let's jump right in. It's like filmmakers, you know, like, whether you're a writer or you're a director or you're a producer, you're pretty much, like, always starting your next thing. You know? And that means that you're always trying to create new opportunities for yourself, whether it's a project that you're writing or a show that you're trying to get staff done as a writer or a director or a feature that you want to direct that you're trying to help put together or you're a producer trying to raise money. It's kinda like you're always trying to reinvent yourself and kick start your next thing. And I think if you don't have that spirit of Mhmm. Go get it, go get it, go get it, as I mentioned in the beginning, it's just so competitive. It's almost like you have to have that curiosity. You have to, you know, wanna be a a a creative collaborator. You have to wanna really want it all the time or somebody else will take it. You know? I wanna piggyback off of what you're saying and ask you, what are three things that you would recommend for a new filmmaker to get noticed? Like, what are proactive things that they can be doing? Make stuff, first and foremost. Definitely never ever ever stop making things because, you know, people don't wanna know what you just did. They wanna know what you are doing and what you have in the pipeline. So I think that's really important. If you are focused on writing and you're a writer, I would say select, you know, screenplay competitions can be very important. Nickel Fellowship, you know, the the the sort of ones that really are paid attention to by the industry. Mhmm. I think if you're someone who's creating content, you're a producer, director, writer, I think film festivals can be amazing if you are very strategic about them, because I think people play at film festivals for very different reasons, and I think film festivals can be helpful, in many different ways depending on the festival. I think some festivals are really great for attending and having a fun experience and being very audience focused. I think others are very good about being a festival that gets you in the press. I think others are festivals that really help bridge opportunities for you with industry professionals, and I think …