84-Xackery: Director of Nothing Without You and Chain Gang, NYU Grad, Vegetarian, Hardest Name to Spell Correctly on the Entire Planet

Xackery shares stories about television producing being his bread and butter, COVID’s effect on film workers, his 1st paying job with Trauma Life in ER, getting people to open up and share their stories, relationship between actors and directors (3:40), learning about shooting films at NYU, differences in USC and NYU for film students, measuring/defining the success of a film, showing at film festivals, why he put his movies on Amazon Prime,  (41:12), artists building a platform for their projects, watching others watch his films, writing and directing Nothing Without You and The Fugitives’ influence on his film, why most people don’t have a favorite film (1:35:19), the challenges of directing a movie and being the director of photography, how he became a vegetarian b/c of a girl on a plane, and his “Best 1st for Last” 1st time he called into a radio show  and made an absolute fool of himself thanks to his brother (2:11:25)

To Get 2 Know More about Xackery check out his films and IG/Twitter

Nothing Without You

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American Chain Gang

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