Charlie David: How To Unleash Your Creative Impulses When Moving In Unchartered Territory

Do you wear many hats as a creative artist? How has time management been for you? Are you struggling to keep up trying to be in multiple places at the same time?

Producer/ Director Charlie David joins our conversation this week to reiterate that active communication between the production team is a critical element in time management. We need to let them know when we are in a place of “too much” and welcome the conversation from their side too.

If you can only give 3 mornings a week for a project, then inform your creative team and make that time count. Charlie reminds us that it’s not our turn, all the time. We should honour each other’s time, space and dedication in each project.

You can always press pause, figure it out and hopefully come back stronger and better.

In this episode:

Integrity is a confidence builder.
The importance of actively listening and actively acknowledging to having a growth mindset.
How a movie or tv series can incite conversations that we often don’t talk about.
The importance of active communication in time management.
We will give our best work when we are nourished and it comes from absorbing creativity in the community.

by Chelsea Johnson | Cue to Cue

A little about Charlie:

Charlie David has hundreds of hours of television to his credit, predominantly exploring the LGBTQ+ experience.

He has been selected as the Canadian Filmmaker in Focus by the Kashish Film Festival in Mumbai, India, an invited guest of the Canadian embassy in South Africa to share his documentary on HIV+ youth, executive produced Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride, a global look at pride celebrations, and winner of multiple awards including, the HBO Best Doc award at the Miami International LGBT Film Festival.

Charlie is the President and a producer at Border2Border Entertainment and previously owned CTM International, a talent agency based in Vancouver managing union and non-union contracting, payments, and negotiations for a roster of over 300 clients.

Border2Border Entertainment produces and promotes a unique brand of award-winning, critically acclaimed film, television, and digital projects. We are dedicated to making each production experience enjoyable for our artists, business and broadcast partners, co-workers, and ultimately our audience.

We are creators who share and promote content for diverse, underserved audiences made by people with lived experience – women, LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities as key participants in what we make.

Border2Border Entertainment pursues a digital first strategy (TVOD, SVOD, AVOD) in the distribution of its assets which include web series, narrative and documentary feature films, scripted, documentary and lifestyle TV series as well as audiobooks, voice recordings and branded video. Our ongoing relationships with TV networks, film festivals and digital platforms around the world keep our content in demand and viewed by millions.

Border2Border Entertainment is a certified supplier and member of the Canadian Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the Canadian Media Producers Association and a signatory producer with ACTRA.

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