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Samantha Mustari on Producing NOAH KAHAN: OUT OF BODY (opens the original)
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Samantha Mustari is an independent producer and filmmaker who got her start at Communications High School in New Jersey, a vocational film program that helped shape her collaborative approach to storytelling, and went on to study film and television at Emerson College in Boston. During her years as a staff producer at RadicalMedia, she worked on music documentaries including YOU’VE GOT GOLD: A CELEBRATION OF JOHN PRINE, SPRING AWAKENING: THOSE YOU’VE KNOWN, and DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA. In
You've Graduated from Film School, Now What? (opens the original)
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I’ve been giving career advice to film school graduates for the last 10+ years, but for some reason haven’t put much of it down in writing. As the school year has come to an end, and I’ve been having one-on-one conversations with the AFI graduating producers, I thought I’d change that and share my insights here to help those of you who are navigating your early career days in Hollywood.If you’ve just graduated, you’re most likely feeling both excited and terrified about entering the real world.
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