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Raul Cuero Interview

Cuero provides many important life lessons in his interview on creativity that helped him to get to where he is today. Cuero urges the audience to believe that they should not limit themselves to what society thinks of them, and to do what everyone expects you can't or won't do. This is something I already try to apply to myself as a filmmaker, typically by throwing myself into situations that are over my head and seeing if I come out okay. In 2017, I took on a freelance videography job that was out of my comfort zone and bigger than anything I had worked on before, but the client was very satisfied with the final product. Last semester I directed and produced a short film that was "very ambitious" in the words of many of my teachers and classmates, but rather than getting discouraged when others were unsure if I could do it, or when one of the (many) problems on set occurred, I strove to keep the production going and show that I was capable of handling it. Cuero als...