Starting and completing a script can be so difficult. Who has the time to sit and write? How do you even pick what to write about? For this edition of the Hustle, Alex Hanson helps us out with her best tips for writing in your free time.

Mentorship can be tricky to find, and even trickier to keep up. Alexa Jordan shares how her relationship with filmmaker Catherine Filloux grew into a creative partnership as well. Incredible things happen when women help each other.

Film student, Grace Bennett writes about her love of the late Agnes Varda. Inspired to find beauty, honesty, and a story in the world around her, Grace thanks Agnes for her work and trailblazing influence for women in film.

Branded video director extraordinaire Blair Waters is used to challenges. But learning how to shoot her first short film came with it’s own unique struggles. In this edition of “The Hustle” she shares with us the 10 things to keep top of mind when shooting a short film.

The Hustle is The Light Leaks’s newest resource tailored to YOU! Ask us questions, if we can’t answer from our own experience, we’ll find someone who’s able to. We got you. Let’s get to it: Internships! They’re pretty mysterious. Seems to have one, be looking for one, or somewhere in between. Don’t know where to start? No worries,

Anya Steiner is a Chicago based filmmaker who, through the internet has been able to meet, collaborate with, and become friends with other women in film across the US and internationally. She’s now crowdfunding for a project called “Rational Creatures”.

Writer and aspiring filmmaker, Rachel Granillo recounts how she reclaimed her art and identity post breakup.

Give your career a reboot with these tips on how to get ahead at work.

Filmmaker Danielle Acton recounts her own coming of age in Sacramento, the process of homecoming and her connection to “Ladybird.”

Steffy Ramirez explains her deep connections to HBO’s Insecure as a WOC and Cali girl.

Feeling lost in her creative life, one media studies student find comfort after a conversation with filmmaker Ok-Hee Jeong.

The world of entertainment internships is treacherous and oftentimes, unpaid. We’re opening up a conversation on unpaid internships in film and media.

The Light Leaks founder, Kim Hoyos, shares some of her tips to stay creative through mental fog.

Interested in human rights and film production, Lauren Cooke explains the importance of social responsibility in media.

Writer and director, Charlotte Manning draws parallels between sexism in the film industry and society’s perception of women.

Shaneika Johnson-Simms explains how seeing teenagers on screen coping with mental health allowed her to open up about her own struggles.

Recent grad, Tara Reid, takes the advice of a Youtube motivational coach and forgoes a traditional career path.

Black, queer, and a woman, Funkuin Sam details how her struggle to reclaim her identity and how those labels have fueled her creativity.

Anna Los talks about her struggles in calling herself a writer while she works a fulltime teaching job and juggles other aspects of her life.

The culture of working yourself to a breakdown is toxic and especially prevalent in the film industry. Filmmaker Caroline Conrad writes about her experience.