by Camden Watts | Jan 21, 2014 | Crowd funding, Directing, Kickstarter, Learning
Last weekend I spent some time in Brevard, N.C., with friends. It was a much needed girls weekend full of nail painting, gabbing, laughing, and — of course — some craft beer drinking. Last year we toured Oskar Blues (remember this post?), so this year we...
by Camden Watts | Jan 17, 2014 | Inspiration, Leading, Learning, Uncategorized
It can be a risky thing to ask for something. There’s always a chance that you’ll get shot down. On the other hand, there’s also a chance that you’ll get what you asked for (and possibly more). There’s this fictional scene in my head of a...
by Camden Watts | Jan 16, 2014 | Communication, Criticism, Directing, Leading, Learning
For some people it’s spiders or snakes. For others its heights or public speaking. For me? It’s being myself on camera. It’s not really a fear, per se. It’s just something that makes me so incredibly nervous that I become a melting, hot mess. I...
by Camden Watts | Jan 15, 2014 | Directing, Film, Inspiration, Leading, Learning
While I worked on Abandoned Allies, my first feature-length documentary, something really cool started happening. People started recognizing me as a filmmaker. Then they started pitching me on ideas for future films. It caught me by surprise at first. Then it got...
by Camden Watts | Jan 14, 2014 | Crowd funding, Encouragement, Family, Film Festival, Fundraising, Health and wellness, Kickstarter, Leading, Learning
These past few weeks have been wild! So much is happening. It’s all really exciting. We recently started sharing details on the documentary I’ve been working on over the past year, Brewconomy. I’m so thrilled that the cat’s out of the bag now....
by Camden Watts | Jan 8, 2014 | Crowd funding, Film, Fundraising, Kickstarter, Socializing
Hello, friends! You’ve seen countless crowd funding posts from me in the past year. Now it’s high time you get to see the results of all that research — my very first Kickstarter campaign for my next film, Brewconomy. To celebrate the momentous...
by Camden Watts | Jan 7, 2014 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
This inspired me. Hope it’ll do the same for you! Keep working hard, my friends.