Meet Rodrigo Occelli

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Rodrigo Occelli. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Rodrigo , thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?

Creativity is a human quality that exists in every single one of us, the difference is not everybody uses “ceative thinking”.

As a film director and screenwriter creative thinking is key. Creativity comes and goes, but the real trick is how do you keep it flowing, how do you create inspite of how you feel? How do you avoid creative blockage?

You need to feed your creativity every single day, by exposing yourself to diverse experiences. I always listen to music, meditate, spend time in nature, talk to strangers and the most important thing…learn to enjoy doing nothing, when you let your mind wander thats when the creativity kicks in.

Discipline plays an important role. I feed my creativity, but also I learned to activate it. I had to figure out how to hack my mind and establish the conditions internal and external for me to create something any time, any day.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

Since a young age I wanted to be a filmmaker, things scaled up in 2013 when my business partner (Alex) and I founded Veta Films, a film production company. It’s being a crazy ride for more than 10 years.

Along all this years we have produced films that reached audiences worldwide, we have worked with many international big brands doing tv commercials and tons of content.

This industry is tough, but the key is in our creativity to write new stories, explore new narratives and new tools. You are in constant change and that is a fact.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

As a filmmaker I can tell you 3 skills that are key to making progress. First, confidence in youself and your ideas. You need to know your self worth because that impacts the way you sell your ideas and yourself. In the end your creations are an extension of your self.

Second, resilience. In life and in the film industry, you capacity to deal with rejection, results, misfortune and change, are key to move forward and move quicker. Don’t waste energy in those dark places… the only way out is through.

And third, clarity. If you have a clear vision about your idea, what do you want to say and how are you going to tell it, you are 80% ahead, the rest is actually doing the work.

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

Yes, we are always searching for companies and people to make alliances. In the advertising world we are looking forward to connect with hotel brands in the USA. And talking about films, any investors out there that want to get involve with serious filmmakers with good ideas… here we are.

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Photographer Enrique Moreno

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