Kyle Saylors: Award Winning Filmmaker

Kyle Saylors is a multiple-award-wining filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. His films have garnered critical acclaim in cinemas around the world and made headlines in such prestigious film festivals as Sundance, Cannes, Berlin International, and more than 50 others. He has directed and produced projects as wide-ranging and diverse as FOX NFL promos, numerous MTV and BET chart-topping music videos with the likes of Master P and Snoop Dogg, Red Bull's hit show "Gamebreakers," and thought-provoking documentaries with global impact such as "Veil of Tears."

He and his brother Kenny are the founders of Saylors Brothers Entertainment, and their work has been featured on, and in, Fox News, Newsweek, BBC, Time Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, Huffington Post, Indie Wire, Charisma, and Christianity Today, among others.

This interview was a little different than previous ones because I tried to just let Kyle talk instead of peppering him a with a thousand questions. Filmmaking is all about storytelling, and Kyle has lots of them to tell. And even if I had questions written down, I forgot to ask a lot of them because I was so engrossed in the stories!

We cover all kinds of ground in this episode including:

• Learning film editing by bleeping movies from the video store because he wasn't allowed to watch films with swearing as a kid

• The non-traditional path of going from ditch-digging at TBN studios to lead camera operator for a national show

• How he once "accidentally" ended up as head of security for the World Cup

• Covering football for NBC Sports from the Dallas Cowboys sideline

• Using a late night chance encounter at Denny's to launch into shooting rap music videos for Snoop Dogg, Master P, SIlkk the Shocker and C-Murder

• The challenges of getting a feature film made relying on funding from Middle Eastern terrorist organizations

• Learning to accept that failure is just part of the process

• How "awful" it is filming Ferrari and Maserati commercials in Italy (poor guy!)

• How brothers who never went to film school and didn't know anything about lighting could create a cutting-edge style by just figuring out what "looked cool."

• The value of breaking rules in the creative process

• The power of storytelling to change policy at the government level

• And so much more!