Making a Difference by Mentoring – Jay Silverman

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When it comes time for your next chapter, do you want to make a difference? One avenue to do so is through mentoring. In director Jay Silverman’s new heartwarming film “Camera” Beau Bridges plays Eric, an aging repairman who forges an unusual friendship with Oscar, a bullied nine-year-old who can’t speak, but finds a voice through photography under Eric’s mentorship.

Jay Silverman joins us from Los Angeles.

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Bio

For over 40 years, Jay Silverman has excelled as a leading Director, Producer, and Photographer specializing in award-winning films, television, digital, and print campaigns; having worked with renowned celebrities such as Denzel Washington, Beyonce, Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, and Ray Charles. His advertising clients include IBM, Coors, Panasonic, Disney, Budweiser, CBS, ABC, Pepsi & Apple.

His current dramatic feature ‘Camera’, stars Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy Award Winner Beau Bridges, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Scotty Tovar, Bruce Davison, and Miguel Gabriel, released on Amazon and Apple in July 2024.

Jay’s narrative films have been awarded numerous Best Feature and Audience Awards at festivals across the country, along with being honored with Belding, Telly, Promax, and Lucy Awards for his commercial work. In addition, he has also been recognized for his achievements in creating and producing many national PSA campaigns for the American Cancer Society, the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, and the Sierra Club.

Some of his early directorial work was for the original launches of the smash hit TV series “American Idol”, “Desperate Housewives”, “NYPD Blue”, “The Drew Carey Show”, and many more. Jay Co-Created and Executive Produced “The Cleaner”, an hour-long drama for Paramount Pictures, which aired on A & E. Additionally, he produced and directed 40 episodes of “One on One” for TV One featuring many stars like Beyonce, Denzel Washington, Usher, Jamie Foxx, and Terrence Howard. Jay also produced and directed a one-hour special titled “Inside the Rings with Troy Aikman” airing on Fox before the 2011 Super Bowl to much success.

Other notable shows include “Roots 30 Year Anniversary Special” for TV One, “The Secret Things of God” for Fox, and “D’Jango Unchained”, a one hour special for The Weinstein Company.

A graduate of Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara with a Master of Science Degree, Jay founded Jay Silverman Productions in 1979 in Hollywood California, and built a 40,000 square foot facility including 3 sound stages. Jay lives in Santa Monica, California, with his three wonderful daughters.

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Trailer

Beau Bridges Interview: The Film That Lit My Fuse

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Wise Quotes

On Camera

“And that’s kind of the fun part of the whole movie. Well, you’re tying it into my personal life because I have three daughters and my last child was born through much premature. And the backstory on that is we decided to use her backstory for the protagonist, the young little nine year old boy, because when she was born at less than two pounds, they damaged her trachea and her vocal cords during incubation multiple, multiple times, and subsequently, she could barely talk. And we thought that that backstory would be not only accurate, because I lived it, to portray in this movie, but it became consistent with the model of what we wanted to say. Because in my own life, even when I was 15 years old and I was using a camera, I wasn’t a very good communicator. And what I did was have the luxury of watching my brother, who was kind of was my mentor at the time, take pictures. And I thought, Wow, this is a great way to tell stories. And I became attached to that idea. And at the age of 15, decided I wanted to be a photographer.”

On Mentoring

“And I thought to myself, this is the beginning, we’re all approachable. And most of the time we’re underutilized as as as seniors, because I really genuinely believe every one of us has the capacity to mentor somebody. I try to mentor other people all the time. I wouldn’t be where I’m at if it wasn’t for mentors. To me, there’s always going to be people who have this desire to want to open their mind to helping others.”

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