This self-proclaimed blue-collar filmmaker learns by doing and has gotten himself a long way in a short time. Wes Miller had to hear it from his mother. But he didn't have a choice. He had stories he wanted to tell, that he felt needed telling. He had a desire he couldn't let go of, and in his own words, he didn't want to hit age 85 with regrets. So he left a successful career as an attorney to make movies. Anyone's mother would be worried. Chances of success in the industry are always slim. Miller knew that, but he buckled himself in for a lot of learning by doing. Bit by bit, shoot but shoot, he built a skill set he could rely on, and he started getting larger and larger stories to direct. Miller has a career now, not as an attorney but as a writer/director. His latest movie, Hell on the Border, is still relatively small, but his most significant to date. It's a biopic about a real-life figure, the larger than life and legendary Bass Reeves. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 10 January, 2020