CHAPTER 5STARTING AGAIN
This is your Third Act. You’ve enjoyed some success, had a great run, but maybe you’ve been sitting still for a while, or just caught up in life’s many demands. In every profession, there’s a point at which we need to start again. In this chapter, we’ll look at ways to refurbish a career in nonfiction film. Sometimes this can happen in an instant, with a vision of what could be, or maybe it takes several lifetimes, considering the past and what has been lost, as Saeed Taji Farouky considers in the essay that follows. This chapter overall is darker, political, controversial, personal. But sometimes the best way forward requires us to go through more difficult places, and/or to better know ...
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