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Sep 2021
36m 19s

Going To War For Your Art

Filmmaking
About this episode
This is the first of our new Filmmaking Friday series. This week we talk about Steven Pressfield's The War of Art and Going Pro and the mentality required to keep progressing your filmmaking. 
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