1169. Making It in Hollywood Takes Grit, Determination and Talent

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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"It was really sort of a Blitzkrieg assault approach where I wrote many, many scripts and emailed everybody I knew, and entered scripts into screenwriting competitions.

"While I was living in New York I paid for a pitch fest in L.A. I flew out there to this event where you had five minutes to pitch different companies, like Lionsgate Motion Pictures. It was like speed dating for screenwriters. Eventually, I got one of my scripts into the hands of The Asylum and that eventually became 'Born Bad,' which was a made-for Lifetime TV movie. When they told me they liked that script and they wanted me, well, that was amazing!"

Jared Cohn is a film/TV director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. He has directed over 50 films that have been produced and distributed by major studios and distributed by major studios and production companies such as Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, Syfy, Lifetime, and many more.

His new book, 50 Movies Made: Lessons Learned on a Filmmaker's Journey, chronicles his life through the Hollywood trenches and how he achieved his lifelong dream on the other side. In the book, he discusses all areas of the movie making process, from screenwriting and preproduction to production, post-production and distribution.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.7	Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:26.9	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:39.2	Today I've delighted to bring you our featured guest, Jared Cohn. Welcome, Jared. It's
0:45.6	absolutely my pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Wonderful. Jared, are you
0:50.2	using your talents to him with that you love? I like to think so.
0:55.3	Good, good.
0:56.0	Well, you've got an amazing story.
0:57.4	We want to hear it all from start to finish.
0:59.9	Jared Cohn is a film TV director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles.
1:06.4	He's directed over 50 films that have been produced and distributed by major studios and
1:12.4	distributed by companies such as Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, Sci-Fi, Lifetime, and many more.
1:19.5	His book, 50 movies made, Lessons Learned on a Filmmaker's Journey, chronicles his life through
1:25.5	the Hollywood trenches and how he achieved his lifelong dream
1:28.9	on the other side. In the book, he discusses all areas of the moviemaking process from
1:34.4	screenwriting and pre-production to production, post-production, and distribution. Well, Jared, you've got an
1:40.9	amazing story to share, to say the very least, but before we launch into your whole hero's journey, take just a couple of minutes and tell
1:48.5	us what you're working on right now.
1:50.8	Yeah, a few different projects right now as I had a movie come out on 2B called The Get Back.
1:58.6	And that was an action movie that we filmed in mississippi and a sequel to the m m m movie
2:06.6	that i did called lord of the streets so it's the lord of the streets too it's a sort of cartel
2:15.3	versus special forces kind of action movie so a few different things as well as
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