After finishing high school in Rhode Island in 2008, Joe Begos drove to Los Angeles, like so many before him, with the dream of making movies.
Upon arriving, the first place that Begos raced to was the ArcLight cinema on Sunset Boulevard, where his filmmaking idol, David Cronenberg, was delivering a Q&A at the Cinerama Dome after a 35mm screening of his 1986 horror classic, The Fly.
Within five days of being an Angeleno, Begos got a job at the ArcLight in Sherman Oaks, where he worked as an usher, in concessions and delivering prefilm audience greetings for the next year. “That’s how you found your clique, your people,” says Begos, who went on to produce and direct four indie horror features, including the films Bliss and VFW, of joining.
Read more on hollywoodreporter.com