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Hollywood Talent Manager Brian Medavoy Holds Q&A at Los Angeles Campus
The New York Film Academy was excited to welcome Talent Manager, Producer, and Emmy Award winner Brian Medavoy to the Los Angeles campus whose TV productions include Dharma and Greg,…
The Most Important Conversation You Can Have Is With Yourself
I think a lot about why. Specifically, why we do what we do: it’s something that I ask any potential client, and it’s something I ask myself. Why have I…
The 90th Academy Awards: What This Year’s Oscars Says About Where We Are And Where We’re Headed
I live and work in an industry built around inspiration. Every artistic work worth its salt started with someone being moved to the point that they had to create something…
How Raising Livestock and Chopping Wood As a Teenager Prepared Me For a Career In Hollywood
A little over a year ago, The New York Times published a profile of the Midland School, a small private school in Los Olivos, California. Midland is a fairly ordinary…
How to Handle the Ups and Downs of an Entertainment Industry Career
Whether you’ve spent a day or a decade in Hollywood, you know life in La La Land is a series of ups and downs. The peaks and valleys of the…
How To Change Your Luck In Hollywood
“Luck” Photo by Erwin More of More Medavoy When I hear people talk about actors, I often hear “luck” referenced as a reason for their success. “Sure,” I say. But…
5 Things Every Actor Can Learn From The Beatles
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha The Beatles Knew What It Took to Be an Actor There’s no…
GIVE Theory: Success is Measured by What You Do for Others
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill” I love this quote because it so adeptly pinpoints why I…
Hollywood vs Hollywouldn’t: 12 Tips to Help Actors Navigate the Hollywood Landscape
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you have always got.” – Henry Ford I love actors. Compared to most people, actors are often…