While I was waiting for the symposium to start, I decided to be anti-social, so I just found a seat and started reading the schedule for the Visual Communications L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival (www.vconline.org) in May. A woman sat next to me and I decided to strike up a conversation (I decided not to be anti-social anymore). I found out that she's a producer who is producing films in Vietnam. How cool is that?! She knows all these guys who are making films in Vietnam. I asked her how she came to know these filmmakers, and she said she just met them at events such as this symposium. So of course I got her contact info.
One of my New Year's resolutions for this year is to network network network. I would say that other than persistence, the other important key to success is learning how to establish and maintain relationships (i.e., business relationships, but I think personal relationships too, because I'm a big believer of the importance of having a support network of friends and family). In fact, the very first piece of business advice ever given to me when I was starting out professionally is the importance of relationships. Throughout the years, I've met so many successful people who have repeated this advice.
As part of my New Year's resolution to network, I renewed my memberships/started new memberships, with various film organizations and I'm trying to get out there to meet new people. So far, I've met a number of truly amazing and passionate filmmakers, producers, artists, etc. I feel incredibly fortunate to be among this community of creative people. My sister told me about this saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." (Sorry, I don't know the source of this quote, just that it isn't my sister's.) I think it is also true that when you are committed to your dreams, you will meet those along the way who will help you (I'm going to give that one to Coelho, as that was a theme in The Alchemist).
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