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So the structure I am now following is: Get to know the patient personally; If filming becomes an opportunity to enhance that person's life, I propose the idea; If the patient agrees, I film an interview, without any B Roll; Based on the interview, I build the story for the short film; With the story in mind, I return to film the B Roll in the next weeks, up until everything is complete; I also incorporate a brief, explanatory interview with the patient's attending physician; Editing is done, video is released. I am excited to try this new strategy. It has been super arduous work, but it's been equally fulfilling and unfolding in incredible ways. 

Existing Market.  Step 1: To create breathtaking short films, sharply improving the quality to natgeo level of filmmaking; Step 2: I interview my Mother Nature, which rules above us all. She said that it does not matter what my wishes are. What needs to be done is uncertain but the time is counting down, and that is as certain as death :) Step 3: I need to finish this semester, so I can stop writing blogs and actually start working full time in that. Combining both school and work has been super challenging, but I have been managing it fairly decently. I am eagerly waiting for the moment I can do this full time. New Market. Step 1: It would be very interesting to leave the US and film critical care units elsewhere in the world. I am not sure how that would be done, though. Perhaps I first need to apply for a nice grant, then have a partner with me, then make mini trips to other countries and find out how patients are treated there. Step 2: It may attract attention to t...

Opportunity:  My greater aspiration is to one day be in a position of enough power to improve medical care worldwide. This is my life goal. For the next ten years, however, my opportunity (or life goal scaffold) is to tell stories of remarkable individuals in medicine. Through the scope of a nonprofit organization that I want to call "Heroes of Medicine Foundation", I plan to highlight the lives and thoughts of patients, scientists, doctors, and anyone meaningfully affected by medicine. Although in its infancy, the work has already started: www.heroesofmedicine.org As a former cancer patient, scientist, and aspiring filmmaker, I am governed by this idea that something beautiful can be created out of these hospital rooms. Something about the human condition in the most vulnerable moments, which translates into resilience, excellence, and sacrifice. That’s when powerful stories arise. Most of them, however, go forgotten. I am doing this specially to prevent many patients from...