“Unlocking the Secrets of Interactive Storytelling: Gavin Michael Booth Reveals How to Captivate Audiences in Episode 533 of SYS Podcast!”
So now let’s get into the main segment. Today I am interviewing writer, director, Gavin Michael Booth. Here is the interview. Welcome Michael to the Selling Your Screenplay podcast. I really appreciate you coming on the show with me today.
Gavin Michael Booth
Happy to be here, thanks for having me.
Ashley
So, to start out, maybe you can tell us a little bit about your background. Where did you grow up and how did you get interested in the entertainment business?
Gavin Michael Booth
Yeah. I grew up in a small town called Amisburg, Ontario, which is close to Windsor, Ontario, which most people would know is the border city right across the river from Detroit, Michigan. Uh, so to, to put it into one of my favorite movies, Star Wars context, like the, uh, what does Luke say? It’s the, if you’re, if there was a bright center of the universe, then you’re on the planet that is furthest from describing Tatooine as farm. Uh, there was a bright center of the filmmaking universe. Then Amisburg would be the town that is furthest from. So not, not a lot, not a lot happening pre-social media days when you couldn’t just post, Hey, I want to make a movie. Who wants the help? So, it was a lot of, I had saved up with my paper route money and bought a camcorder and just ran around the neighborhood making stupid parody movies with all my neighborhood friends. Like a Friday the 13th, part 27 or Indiana Jones, the last controller, remote controller, and, uh, in high school, we had a pretty significant video editing suite at the time and, and really kind of fell in love with making movies then and, and just kind of never, never stopped. Didn’t go to school for it. Just bought screenplay books, read screenplays. And, uh, you know, I saw Kevin Smith make a movie and like, Oh, you just need $25,000 and you go to Sundance and that’s it. So I put together the money. I made a movie, didn’t go to Sundance, barely survived making the film, but, but we finished it and kind of learned like, Oh, that’s the lesson. You just need to go make the film. And then, then you figure out what to do with it afterwards.
