We recently connected with Bhg Productions and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, BHG thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What were some of the most unexpected problems you’ve faced in your career and how did you resolve those issues?
While not completely unexpected, we’d all agree that the biggest challenge in our creative journey is finding time to produce our collaborative ideas. Our group met and began collaborating in college. After we graduated into a pandemic and attempted to build our careers in a volatile industry like film, it came with several union strikes and 12+ hour work days. We quickly realized that making time to work together would require more commitment and dedication than it did when we were in school. Schedules have to align perfectly on top of trying to juggle daily responsibilities and social lives. Finding a time to be creative feels almost impossible. But seven years later, we’re still making it work. Even through the various life changes everyone experiences like moving, weddings, having kids, and changing careers. When there’s a holiday coming up or a time where we can film something in two days, we’ll communicate that with the group and do our best to make whatever project we’re working on at the time meet that deadline.
BHG, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
One of the things that we as a group are most proud of is producing yearly projects together since meeting each other in college. Despite the majority of us working in the film industry with constantly fluctuating schedules, we still prioritize making projects together. It feels like a lifeline in a way, getting to create things we’re proud of with people we genuinely love working with. Getting that thrill of seeing our vision come to life is something that fuels us. And because we’ve been working together for so long, it’s given us the opportunity to stretch out of our comfort zone. It’s special that everything we’ve made has been different in some way; no two projects are exactly alike because we want to try new things and trust each other enough to navigate something new together.
What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?
Viewing art as something that is necessary is the first step in supporting creatives and creating a healthy artistic ecosystem. People became acutely aware of how important art is during the pandemic, how much it fuels and inspires and comforts us. But there’s this misconception that art is easy to make. Creating art requires hard work and dedication, just like anything else. It’s an incredibly vulnerable thing to create. One way people can respect the work that goes into creating art is treating it like a career, one worthy of a livable wage. Having an open mind about the kind of art that you consume and create is another important thing. There’s this expectation that art needs to be profound and life-changing. Sometimes it’s okay to make art because it’s fun or healing; it doesn’t necessarily have to change the world.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
There’s this expectation, at least in the filmmaking space, that you have to be an expert in everything. One of the most important lessons we’ve learned is acknowledging that we simply can’t know everything. Our job is to find the people who know what we don’t know. More than that, work with people who are empathetic and have a team mentality. Nothing kills an art piece faster than someone who doesn’t care about what you’re doing. If there is mutual respect, that’s an excellent place to start a collaboration.
Contact Info:
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Image Credits
default_1.482.2 – Mohammad Shaikh
the rest of the photos are taken by BHG