Why Would Someone Who Loves Movies And Writing Quit The Film Business?

Why Would Someone Who Loves Movies And Writing Quit The Film Business? - Kim O'Hara

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Kim O'Hara was born in Warren, Rhode Island, and produced her first motion picture at the age of 25. Trailers of her movies can be accessed on bit.ly/1jKFKu2. She was the screenwriter on American Reunion. She is very open about the fact that she thought she could make movies about troubled characters to heal audiences, but found frustration in limited distribution of her films. Her personal crisis and recovery from sexual abuse and addictions after the birth of her second child led her to discover book coaching, and she opened her company A Story Inside. She coaches women ready to speak their truth through writing their books. Writing is a challenge for many people, then add in recovery from the shame and denial of sexual abuse. Kim's book makes healing through writing accessible to anyone with her signature writing prompts. No subject is untouched, from spirituality to sexuality, and she is candid about all the maneuvers she did to avoid facing this dark shadow in her life.
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@osw330904 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the longevity of the process isn’t worth the incessant rejection

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

Love this insight!

@winterramos4527 2 жыл бұрын

This interviewer is such a GEM. Never EVER change her. Her questions, her attention to detail is what matters. It's very conversational and it's so refreshing to see. I work at a supermarket and I feel like I should write more&more. Thanks to this channel, I will begin again soon.

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

I worked at Trader Joes in an interim period after the movies. Great character studies!

@winterramos4527 2 жыл бұрын

@@livewithkimohara3257 great..you don't work at Trader Joe's anymore? Are you writing?

@crencottrell7849 2 жыл бұрын

Too much competition, not making any $$, new ideas being overlooked for same old same old reboots & remakes, just a few ideas 😅 happy Friday 😁.

@lukeskywalkerlucasfilm 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds familiar! "Art doesn't pay, but fulfilling your creative spirit will quiet the noises in our heads" -CK :-)

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

It does pay off when you can write a book though and have that process not only change you but if you have the right platform, you can change lives for a lot less marketing dollars. A Lot less!

@GunnarClovis 2 жыл бұрын

Kim along with Chris Gore is one of my absolute favorite guests. She's fantastic

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

OMG thank you so much! What a compliment! He's from back in my day!

@GunnarClovis 2 жыл бұрын

@@livewithkimohara3257 you're very welcome haha 😄

@GunnarClovis 2 жыл бұрын

You never owe it to anyone to stay with a business that treats you poorly, whether it's an individual company or an industry at large. Never be bullied into doing things you don't want to do, saying things you don't want to say, believing things you don't want to believe, and taking jobs you don't want to take. Nothing but respect for Kim.

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

Life is too short to stay in chaos!

@blainemarcano 2 жыл бұрын

This content adds variety that’s important to understanding how each individual may fit (or not fit) into a career in filmmaking. It gives me more ‘qualitative data’ upon which to base my decision.

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

So happy I could shine a light!

@bubblybull2463 2 жыл бұрын

At last someone genuine who tells it like it is : most of the time it’s an ugly slavery system, that film industry. It crushes souls more often than not.

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@sheldonhollis5258 2 жыл бұрын

One of the main reasons why im becoming a truck driver next month. I love writing but it doesn't pay the bills.

@filmcourage 2 жыл бұрын

Hope you find a way to keep writing Sheldon!

@Daniel-hs6ct 2 жыл бұрын

my father is a truck driver, cross country, 20 + years……now you’ll find some good writing material, trust me

@maxstravagar 2 жыл бұрын

This woman is fantastic she should return home again... Hollywood needs her now more than ever! I've written a few screenplays and several books, I wouldn't mind her directing any of my works. Please get in touch if in the future you change your mind.

@livewithkimohara3257 2 жыл бұрын

Ha! I only directed one short film and I said never again. I was a producer/screenwriter.

@maxstravagar 2 жыл бұрын

@@livewithkimohara3257 the world needs you back in the game!

@svensvenkill 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, after now watching a few clips on this channel of Kim O'Hara speaking, how do I get this excellent human as my agent, advisor and editor? I'm not even a screenwriter; I write prose. She is damn smart, wise and insightful. I REALLY need someone like this to guide and help me to improve as a writer.

@BuildinWings 2 жыл бұрын

I left because I witnessed endemic abuse, and no apparatus existed back then to hold people accountable.

@eastlynburkholder3559 2 жыл бұрын

The history of Hollywood starts with the movie industry learning to be profitable and once the profits but once the financial pay offs were more successful gatekeeping begins. So corruption happens as gatekeepers require their pound of flesh in addition to stated rules and payments.

@TheWalkingDavid 2 жыл бұрын

I greatly appreciate this interview and this woman. It’s a hard decision to make. I live in a state that is starting to get more work coming in, and the ugliness of the business is starting to read its ugly head again. Many are attracted to the idea of being an actor (which is what I have been doing for 10 years), and they have yet to see the constant rejection, the lack of follow through for projects, and the fact that the production that come through here outsource their casts and crews and leave scraps for the people of our state. If social media didn’t exist, and the perpetuating of the false narrative that the industry is all sunshine and rainbows and behind the scenes pics of this and that, I feel like many of the newcomers wouldn’t even have any desire to be in the industry. It’s all a false narrative of, “you’re missing out” if you aren’t in the industry. It’s like when a person hates a city that they moved to, far from home. They hate the people, the expense, the smell, everything, and yet when they talk to other people about living there? They are on cloud 9! You’ve got to come here! Visit or move here! It’s great! Do it! Just to have a person move there or visit them so they have someone to commiserate with, and not feel so alone, because often times these big cities are lonely places when you’re in this industry. True friends are hard to come by. Sorry for the rant.

@stevenmillan9220 2 жыл бұрын

As a former aspiring scriptwriter,it is the dramatic inner business structure of the film industry,the business side of all things that are film related,and the major change in the film industry in Harry Knowles having Knowles-ized both the film industry and the film fandom community(and base) that has driven out both many aspiring and professional writer(along with actors,actresses,and filmmakers) far away from the film industry.

@filmcourage 2 жыл бұрын

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@StoryMapsDanYouTube 2 жыл бұрын

I love that she was so honest, we need more of that but it's tough because you worry it might hurt your career some day if the wrong person sees it. Btw, I held a reading in NYC at age 23 in my studio apartment I lived in with my gf on West 16th st and we printed all of the scripts at her workplace on a Saturday afternoon! #guerrilafilmmaking

@filmcourage 2 жыл бұрын

@@StoryMapsDanKZfaq Thanks for the comment, Dan. We hope you're doing well. Agree that Kim's honesty and willingness to share is refreshing. Thanks again. :)

@GunnarClovis 2 жыл бұрын

Kim, obviously! Kim is the best!

@kamuelalee 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview. A very honest portrayal of the Hollywood film industry.

@shyguyN1CK 2 жыл бұрын

I might also walk away from the industry as well. I’ve been out of school for 3 years, have done some internships, and still can’t get my foot in the door. Will probably go back to school to study something else or just do something else away from the film industry.

@emyserozzi8088 2 жыл бұрын

Big respect to her and Chris Gore, who are 2 of the most genuine people I ever had the pleasure to listen to. I can understand why someone who loves movies and writing would quit the film business, altogether. The payoff is just poor, even for talented professional writers, as the directors and producers want to run everything at all costs, leaving very little room to REAL creative artists, and then we see the results of such bad decision: Terminator Dark Fate, Alien Covenant (what the hell was that movie about it, anyway?), a huge load of poorly-written animated movies, comic books adaptations, cheap-looking CGI action movies and endless reboots/remakes. No wonder why creative masterminds, such as David Lynch, left the industry for good. There's just no room for new concepts and ideas anymore, but just a huge competition of regurgitated ideas.

@Madkre8tor 2 жыл бұрын

Quitting Hollywood for me was about trying to find a "normal" lifestyle... how is it "normal" (or even sane!) to work 14 to 16 hours every day for someone else's vision? We are not Hebrew slaves in Egypt building pyramids for Pharoah, but that's pretty much how we're treated.