From Hollywood Editor to Creative Technologist: Editor Christopher Hill on Reinvention, VR, and Building Your Own IP

March 31
34 mins

Episode Description

Christopher Hill is a storyteller, editor, and creative technologist whose career tracks the changing landscape of Hollywood itself. In this episode, host Mishawn Nolan talks with Chris about growing up surrounded by New York's creative and intellectual community — with a father who acted in films and on television and a mother who shaped visual culture at Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine, and the Village Voice — building a 20-plus-year career as an editor across reality TV, documentaries, and feature films, and how he used an editor's mindset to pivot when the industry shifted beneath him.

Chris shares how he taught himself to code, built a VR puzzle game for the Meta Quest, and created ShowBuild — a Mac productivity app designed to solve real post-production problems. He also opens up about imposter syndrome, the courage it takes to own your own IP, and why refusing to define yourself by what you do may be the most important creative skill of all.

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