Unveiling the Secrets: How Miguel Duran Transforms Shorts into Cinematic Masterpieces
Ashley
Welcome Miguel to the Selling Your Screenplay podcast. I really appreciate you coming on the show with me today.
Miguel Duran
Well, thank you so much for having me happy to be here.
Ashley
So, to start out, maybe you can tell us a little bit about your background, where’d you grow up and how did you get interested in the entertainment business?
Miguel Duran
Sure, absolutely. So, I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. I moved out to I left to California for college. I went to a small liberal arts school, Claremont McKenna College, with no intention of doing anything entertainment related. I went as an econ major. But you know, when I was a kid, I love doing creative stuff. I loved writing. And I quickly found that I wasn’t comfortable in kind of the more secure path that I had chosen. And I took a screenwriting, a screenwriting course, I think my sophomore junior year, and I realized this is this is what I want to do. And so I shifted gears into that creative role. Started as a writer. And as a writer, I found that I got impatient waiting for my projects to happen. There were so many early in my career, cases where a script would be optioned. And then, you know, there’s a lot of hurry up and wait, where, you know, it looks like it’s going to happen. And then I’ll fall apart. It looks like it’s going to happen and I’ll fall apart. And so I started working as a director myself. So, I started PA on sets to learn the production and work my way up to production coordinator, production manager on some smaller projects and then started directing my own shorts that I had also written.
