Every artist must teach themselves the skills they need to succeed – Sophia Cacciola

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Every artist must teach themselves the skills they need to succeed – Sophia Cacciola

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January 2, 2023

Every artist must teach themselves the skills they need to succeed – Sophia Cacciola

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Film Courage: How many art classes did you take as an adult, be it music, film?

Sophia Cacciola, Director of Photography, Actress, Musician, Director: Unfortunately, I haven’t taken any art classes since high school. Maybe I should now you say I’m oh man should I go take more classes. None. I took guitar lessons with a local guy for five bucks a lesson in high school. I was in the AV club in high school, so I shot every football game, every play, everything on VHS. I was doing ceramics at the time, I was painting at the time. As an adult, I have just been I will do that. I think back in the 90s when all the riot girl stuff was going on I just had it in my head if i could just get to a city i would get into a band and get there. This will be my lottery ticket out of rural America and I think it was kind of the dream that was fed to us in the 90s in magazines and stuff. You’re just in a band, you’ll be fine. So I have that in my head if I arrive in a city everything is fine and that’s exactly what I did. I moved from rural New York to Boston and I was like I’m in a city, now it’s gonna be great. I didn’t quite realize that no one cared what was going on in Boston. I wish I had known earlier that I needed to go to New York or Los Angeles, although it wouldn’t have made any difference because now I have a great job… (Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

ORGANIC :

Sophia Cacciola is a Los Angeles-based producer, director and cinematographer. With her production company Launch Over, she has made numerous feature films of sociopolitical genre which have been screened at more than 75 film festivals and distributed worldwide. Sophia got her start in music, notably as a singer-songwriter-drummer in the no-wave punk band, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.