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Podcast: Follow Your Curiosity: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity.
Episode: Building Worlds on Page and Screen with Josh Mendoza
Description: My guest today is Josh Mendoza, an award-winning filmmaker known for his post-apocalyptic feature film, What Still Remains. His debut novel, Shadow of the Eternal Watcher, which combines sci-if and film noir, was released in January. Josh joins me to talk about his start in creative writing and his move into film, the similarities and differences in writing fiction and film, the necessity of learning through failure, the democratization of creative pursuits like filmmaking, and more.
Episode breakdown:
00:00 Introduction
04:42 Family support fuels persistence in creative pursuits.
08:51 Emphasizing positivity over negativity in...