This week we had another guest speaker come in to talk to us, an RMIT graduate named Amiel Courtin-Wilson. He was super interesting to listen to and shed light on what being in the documentary industry is really like and the amount of work that goes into simply making one film. He said he spent ten years on one doco! He showed us the trailers to a few of his documentaries and it was just so impressive to see how his perseverance paid off. He also said that when he was studying screenwriting at RMIT, he never really considered making documentaries at first and now that’s what he does for a living. It’s cool how inspiration for new things can hit at any point in life.

Here’s the trailer for one of his films ‘Hail’