Timothy Blackton is a writer, producer, director, actor, event producer, and whiskey connoisseur.
TECHS (short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut24UgZlHdY&feature=youtu.be
In this session, Timothy and Maxwell discuss storytelling, Weiden + Kennedy, his film "TECHS", long term projects, writing process, service jobs, adjusting your personality to help someone, fake it till you make it, software company "Coupa", acting in commercials, Christopher Nolan, Judd Apatow, Quentin Tarantino, Helter Skelter, Inglorious Basterds, Lethal Weapon 5, making movies for money, movie theaters after COVID, leaving Nike to develop film career, being a stage manager in Ashland, OR, moving to Los Angeles in 1995, chasing dreams, differences between theater and film, failing is good, always being remembered for your last gig, G. Love and Special Sauce, Zoom calls, Bill Gates, taking drugs for AIDS, Magic Johnson, tying stimulus money to COVID vaccine, Olympia beer, film festivals in The Dalles, OR, Sunshine Mill, owning land in Goldendale, WA, composting toilets, metal detectors, Porsche 911, mid-engine cars, Tesla, kids don't want to get drivers licenses, Disneyland, Florida is open, California is closed, Magic Mountain, Disney Dollars, growing up in San Francisco, being backstage at Peter Frampton and Led Zeppelin concerts, growing up in concert venues, doing stand-up, and feeding off the response from an audience.
