We were lucky to catch up with Tristan Chandra recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Tristan, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?
I think any shroud of confidence I have comes from an endless string of failures. I’m probably stealing this from Edison, or someone else far smarter than me – but, every failure really does present itself as a new way of knowing how not to do something. That super slight increase in my odds is like a small shot of confidence to the dome.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
I’m a director, producer, and writer based in Tampa Bay, FL. I run a film production company called Mandalay Film Club, where we produce films exclusively shot on film. We just released our newest short film “Minutes,” which is a perfect bundle of anxiety for any fans of the Safdie Brothers. It’s currently available to watch for free on MandalayFilmClub.com!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Fail, Fail, Fail.
You’ll never learn how to do things right until you do them wrong. Failing over and over is better than never starting.
What is the number one obstacle or challenge you are currently facing and what are you doing to try to resolve or overcome this challenge?
I’ve spent a lot of years producing and directing music videos for small independent artists, and it’s come to a point where I have found that, unless they’re signed to a label that is actually assisting the artist financially, there really is no point for these smaller artists to even make low budget music videos. Objectively, nothing ever comes from it. Ever.
However, I have found that creating “mini music videos” specifcally for platforms like Instagram and TikTok, actually gives artist super high quality content they could never get from a $1k music video – AND it actually works as an effective marketing tool – something these low budget music videos that sit on YouTube never do.
It’s an exciting and pioneering new idea I’m really standing behind. I’ve talked to some artists who are frightened by the idea of not making music videos until they can truly afford to do them right, because they feel like they have to. But those that are taking the leap to try out somethingcompletely new are already seeing massive returns!
Contact Info:
- Website: MandalayFilmclub.com
- Instagram: @MandalayFilmClub
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