Nick shares the wisdom of Director and Writer Robert Broadhurst and expounds upon Robert's quote, “It’s really hard to make art, to begin with, it’s even harder if you can’t pay your bills doing it."
About Robert Broadhurst
Before directing, my work as an editor spanned Emmy-nominated television, documentary film, and commercials, including work for Adidas, Apple, Google, Nike, Balmain, DKNY, H&M, Alexander Wang and Equinox. I worked on Kanye West’s first three Yeezy launches, first as an editor and finally as livestream creative director for the Clio-winning Yeezy Season 3 / Life of Pablo broadcast from Madison Square Garden.
My work as a creative editor evolved naturally into more involved creative roles until I started directing, with campaign films for Adidas Y-3.
I recently directed a brand film for the European launch of the HONOR Series 20 smartphone by Huawei, and my first beauty campaign for Armani Beauty.
AN OCCURRENCE AT ARVERNE, my first short film as writer-director, debuted online as a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere, played 30+ festivals and got a 2021 Webby Award.
About the MAKE IT Podcast The MAKE IT podcast is a platform for the voice of independent filmmaker. We offer a variety of educational, aspirational, and entertaining content that promotes the success of creatives across the filmmaking community and the film industry. Our Conversations with filmmaking professionals are dedicated to sharing the advice, knowledge, and insights of experienced filmmakers while exploring what it truly means to be an independent creative in the highly competitive world of filmmaking. Each filmmaker conversation is backed by thoughtful research that allows us to uncover the raw, authentic truths behind each filmmaker's journey. Through our Indie Talks, we share our thoughts and perspectives on navigating independent film from the perspective of Advisory and Executive Producers. We discuss topics that are relevant to filmmakers across a wide spectrum of filmmaking perspectives, and we do our best to uncover hidden truths and new developments in the film industry. Our goal is to help filmmakers avoid the pitfalls and obstacles on the business side of film so that their filmmaking creativity can thrive. Our Industry Insights provide bite-sized actionable advice that filmmaking professionals and creatives of all kinds can use to keep their heads up as they continue their filmmaking journeys. With advice sourced from the filmmaking community, we build upon the wisdom of our filmmaking guests to provide our audience with truly aspirational and inspirational content. The Mistakes in the Making series gives our filmmaking friends an opportunity to speak directly to our filmmaking audience to share a specific lesson they've learned through a mistake they've made. We are firm believers that mistakes can be the gateway to success when we open our hearts and minds to learning from them, sharing them, and using them to Be Better.
