929: What It’s Like to be a Story-Driven Filmmaker With Jude Charles, Jude Charles [Main T4C Episode]

Jude Charles is a filmmaker, brand-strategist and entrepreneur who founded his company, Jude Charles, when he was only 17-years old. As a story-driven filmmaker, Jude works within the documentary genre to tell his clients’ stories and showcase the successful businesses they’ve created. Among his clients: celebrity makeup and fitness entrepreneur, Keyshia Ka’oir Davis; multi-million dollar copywriting entrepreneur, Stefan Paul Georgi; and business coach and entrepreneur, Darnyelle Jervey Harmon. Jude attended Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida for a year before dropping out to pursue filmmaking.  His first documentary took a year to complete and showcased the city of Pompano Beach for its 100-year anniversary. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: Why it’s important to act like a detective as a filmmaker (17:20) What Jude does as a “brand strategist” (28:41) Why it’s important to show who you are as an individual (30:49) How Jude uses “roadmapping” to show what makes each of his clients unique and compelling (40:46) How Jude’s 11th grade teacher, Mrs. Donnelly, helped him to become a filmmaker and entrepreneur (45:15) How Jude was able to keep working during the pandemic (57:49) If you want to learn more about how Jude recommends you break into filmmaking check out T4C episode #672