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Hey folks. Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I'm talking with director Sheldon Lettich, actor Brian Thompson, and author

Corey Dana, who wrote Sheldon Lettich from Vietnam to Van Dam.

We talk a bit about the book and a lot about Mr. Lettich's

first film, Firefight, which is now available to watch on YouTube. I started off by asking Mr.

Lettich how he went from his career in the military to filmmaking. Yeah, there was a long gap there

between the military and actually doing some motion picture work.

I was a photographer for a number of years, mostly doing architecture. And I wanted to be a

cinematographer at first, and I went to the American Film Institute as a cinematography fellow.

I shot some little student movies for the directing fellows,

and then I got, we all had the opportunity to make our own movie while we were there.

It was on half-inch DHS. I made this little science fiction epic based on an Arthur C. Pardt short

story, and then I kind of had an act for it. I had an act for directing as well as cinematography and for writing as well.

That's when I first tried my hand at writing, because we had screenwriting fellows, cinematography, directing, and producing.

The screenwriting fellows, a lot of them had graduated from very prestigious

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