The Cutting Room Floor
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Hosted by filmmaker Christian Oliveira, The Cutting Room Floor is a podcast about the messy and often unseen parts of living a creative life. Through honest solo reflections and candid conversations with fellow creatives, each episode explores the stories, struggles, and hard-earned lessons that don’t always make the final cut.
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The podcast explores various themes related to living a creative life, including financial uncertainty in the arts, imposter syndrome, and artistic resilience. Specific episodes dive into the pressures faced by creatives in their 30s, the balance between paid work and passion projects, and the significance of community in an often isolating career.
Hosted by filmmaker Christian Oliveira, The Cutting Room Floor is a podcast about the messy and often unseen parts of living a creative life. Through honest solo reflections and candid conversations with fellow creatives, each episode explores the stories, struggles, and hard-earned lessons that don’t always make the final cut.
In this bonus episode, Christian goes off-script to talk about the firing of Stephen Colbert and the abrupt cancellation of The Late Show. But this isn’t just about TV and whether it’s any good; this is about free speech, cowardly corporations, and what every working artist needs to understand about where their money comes from.
Was Colbert fired because his show failed, or because it succeeded in hurting one very powerful man’s fragile little ego?
Christian connects the dots between media mergers, Trump’s never-ending fight against his enemies, and the quiet corporate censorship threatening artists today.
Warning: If you’ve ever dreamed of working with CBS, Paramount, or a soulless multinational conglomerate, this episode might burn a few bridges. And maybe it should…
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