We’re in the “age of the entrepreneur.” As Content Creators, we all must be entrepreneurial as we endeavor to create content, engage audiences with our ideas and figure out ways to monetize our efforts. We all need inspiration to fire our engines and Content Engine is working to do its part.

To that end, Content Engine CEO, Seth Jaret, was interviewed for “Inspiration Inc.” on TV4Startups, a new channel for entrepreneurs to get inspired, something which Content Engine knows something about. After all, our motto is…

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Here’s an in-depth interview with Seth Jaret by Andres Faucher of MyTeeVee about the current state of Hollywood (the traditional media business) and the allure, efficacy and proliferation of New Media. 

This conversation was originally live-streamed on MyTeeVee.tv and is now available to anyone who wants to take advantage of the wealth of information contained within — FOR FREE!

Clearly, we’re in the midst of a paradigm shift in media, but how do we navigate it successfully? This interview will provide you with some of the answers and a roadmap.

Some of the topics covered include how I got my start in Hollywood, how to break into Hollywood, the power of networking, how to scout talent, the difference between a manager and a producer and the reality of producing projects in today’s Hollywood, why we’re in the midst of a television renaissance, the concept of MicroAudience™, the importance of the four quadrants and what they are, why cable networks are content leaders, why you should follow your voice, creativity and fresh ideas, the changing media landscape, the goal of working in new media, how to successfully navigate the Mediaverse™, the definition of Content Creator, how to build your brand with all of the media platforms now available to Content Creators, how “Melange is the New Job Description™,” the importance of engaging an audience, why you are brand and how to build and leverage your brand without diluting it.

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Some of the resources for Content Creators and aspiring Content Creators I mention in the interview:

ContentEngine.tv
YouTube.com/ContentEngine
MyTeeVee.tv - is a new platform for Content Creators to share, collaborate and promote their work. Check it out!
Cinestory.org (1:27:11)
CreatorUp.com
Blcklst.com
Kickstarter.com
Chill.com/creators (1:08:17)
Blip.tv
KoldCast.tv
Hulu.com
Vuguru.com

Useful series and articles on ContentEngine.tv include:
Hollywood Drive & Talk
The Astrology of Bond
Adventures of a Film Scholar
After Hours
The Ra Truth

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This interview is with German filmmaker, Dag Freyer, for an episode of the docu-series “Too Young to Die.”

This was the first documentary Heath’s family participated in since his death. Others interviewed in the film include Kim Ledger (Heath’s father), director Terry Gilliam, Heath’s teachers, coaches, casting agents and other writers, producers and directors who had the privilege of knowing Heath.

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ContentEngine.tv brings you Part 3 of its After Hours interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Christopher Goffard.

Here, Christopher discuss his writing process (“thousands of pages are scrapped”); the disparity between writing works of fiction and non-fiction; his cinematic and visual writing style that makes his non-fiction work, “You Will See Fire,” read like a novel.

Chris is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of a novel, “Snitch Jacket,” which was nominated for an Edgar Award and is currently being packaged as a feature film.

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Here, Christopher discuss Father John Kaiser, the paradoxical hero at the heart of Chris’ new work of non-fiction, “You Will See Fire.”

Chris is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of a novel, “Snitch Jacket,” which was nominated for an Edgar Award.

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Christopher discusses his new work of non-fiction, “You Will See Fire,” which was recently published by W.W. Norton.

Chris is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of a novel, “Snitch Jacket,” which was nominated for an Edgar Award.

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This career interview was produced, filmed and edited by high school students at LACES (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies), a magnet school, for a new organization called gigniks.

gigniks is a non-profit program run by Simon Maskell, who is developing a fun and informative student-generated career guidance resource for high school kids. Now that guidance counselors are largely a thing of the past, high school students can turn to GIGNIKS for career education and insight into a diversity of vocations through online video interviews with various professionals in entertainment and other fields.

Watch the video to get some insight into how I spend my days.

You can check out the rest of the gigniks video interviews here.

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Via Joystiq:

“Scripts are late. Writers are two years late. I was two weeks late,” Bloodrayne film screenwriter Guinevere Turner passionately explains in an interview pulled from “Tales From the Script,” a documentary showcasing stories from across the world of screenwriting. “Uwe Boll calls me [on the phone], ‘This is fucking disgusting! You lied to me! Where is my script?!’,” she continues, demonstrating how she held the phone away from her head as he yelled.

Unsurprisingly, Turner wasn’t a fan of being yelled at, and instructed her manager to make sure she never heard from Boll again. When she turned in the script, however, Turner still expected to work with Boll on future drafts. That wasn’t to be, as she recalls that Boll accepted the very first “nasty, little scrappy draft”and went right into production (though she notes that only about 20 percent of what she wrote made it into the film’s final cut). When Bloodrayne finally debuted at Los Angeles’ famous “Mann’s Chinese Theater,” Turner says she was the only one in the room of production staff “laughing out loud.”

Adding insult to injury, Turner closes the interview by saying, “It’s like a 25 million dollar movie, and it blows! I mean, it’s like the worst movie ever made.” But then, maybe she hasn’t seen Far Cry?

By Ben Gilbert

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/bloodrayne-screenwriter-explains-the-perils-of-working-with-uwe/

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