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Working: How DeMane Davis Pivoted From Advertising to Filmmaking

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Rumaan Alam talks to TV and movie director DeMane Davis about what a working director really does. According to Davis, it requires a huge amount of collaborative problem-solving. Davis traces her journey from advertising copywriter to filmmaker and explains the importance of making art with a purpose. After the interview, Rumaan and co-host June Thomas discuss their takeaways from the interview, including the importance of being nice to your collaborators. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected] Podcast production by Cameron Drews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever had an instant connection with someone? You see them and you just know.

0:04.6

Butterflies in your stomach, wedding bells ringing, the whole enchilada.

0:08.8

It's more than just compatibility. It's a special connection.

0:13.2

They're the one.

0:14.4

The yin to your yang, the ketchup to your chips, the gravy to your Sunday roast.

0:18.9

The Samsung Galaxy Buds FE to your Samsung phone. New Galaxy Bud's FE, the perfect match for your

0:26.4

phone. Discover in store and online at Curries. Welcome back to working. I'm your host June Thomas. And I'm your other host, Riemann alarm.

0:41.0

Riemann, how are things? Are you sick of your home office yet? You know, I'm somebody who's been working out of a home office for a while, and so I'm not terribly sick of it, but I think that we are reaching this moment where most of our colleagues,

0:54.8

it's been four or five weeks now away from the comfort of a workplace, and I happen to be reading

1:01.0

a novel about an office. I'm reading Joshua Ferris' novel and then we came

1:06.8

to the end, is what it's called. It's a 2007 book about the staff at an advertising agency

1:12.0

in Chicago awaiting their layoffs and it's a really penetrating and

1:19.4

kind of surreal look about what it is like to be in an office and it's reminding me of my own experiences when I worked in an office and that what office culture is like.

1:28.0

Are you missing that right now, June?

1:30.0

You know it's funny because I'm one of those people who as very much of an introvert I am not really missing

1:36.8

like having to steal myself I get much more work than when I'm at home I find it much easier to

1:42.4

concentrate but I do miss seeing

1:45.0

people's faces. I miss those funny little conversations, sometimes awkward little conversations.

1:51.1

And I do think, you know, especially in journalism is there's this kind of

1:55.9

of cliche that oh you know ideas are sparked in kind of hallway conversations.

2:00.6

At different times I've kind of regarded that with different degrees of skepticism.

2:06.0

But I do think there's definitely something to it and I think I'm really just in my own head now.

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