Part 1- Interview of David Womark, an American Film Producer

David Womark is an American Film Producer who has worked on over 35 films including, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Life of Pi. With Ang Lee and Gil Netter, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Life of Pi. Life of Pi was also nominated for multiple Academy, BAFTA and Golden Globe awards including Best Picture and Best Director and was an American Film Institute official selection for “Best Movie of the Year”.  

David also served as Producer on Pete Berg's highly acclaimed "Deepwater Horizon" film: depicting the disaster in April 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil-rig exploded--resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.

 

In this part of the episode we talked about:

• David’s experience of Life of Pi movie
• The similarity in creating a story and creating a product or a business
• How a new project or new things should be implemented with different people, different cultures, from different geographies, different backgrounds what is the best way to collaborate as a group, so everyone's opinions heard, but yet a path is decided upon.
• Talking about Hollywood-Bollywood collaboration
• How new techniques & technologies are implemented in movies

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Learn more about David Womark

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Womark 

 

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