Maurice Moore Red Carpet Interview at our 2025 event! "Finding Solace" Premiere!

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Maurice Moore on the red carpet discussing his career and upcoming film 'Finding Solace'.

We caught up with Mo on the red carpet! Motivate pictures cleaned up on awards this year! "Maurice Moore is a “storyteller”, who at an early age received a life changing opportunity when Steven Spielberg cast him in the Academy Award nominated classic “The Color Purple”. This fueled his passion to become an actor, then ultimately a producer and filmmaker. Maurice went on to hone his talent on the stage and screen working in productions from Austin to Los Angeles. After a decade-long stint in Los Angeles where he found success as a producer, filmmaker and screenwriter Maurice took his valuable business experience to Austin, TX where he created Motivate Pictures. Within the first five years of its existence Maurice, working alongside filmmaker Alex Rios, has turned Motivate Pictures into a multi-award-winning production company including films such as “The Devil Inside Us”, “Deja Vu” and “The Place She Dwells”. With that success Motivate Pictures has expanded globally and created Motivate Pictures Europe! Maurice and his team have gone on to produce critically acclaimed projects all over Europe that include “Skills”, “The Heist”, “Light”, “Blue”, and “Cold Love”. Maurice’s recent…

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin N. Redic II

Guest: Maurice Moore

Topics covered

• film production
• interview
• red carpet
• psychological thriller
• storytelling
• awards

Keywords

• Maurice Moore
• Finding Solace
• Motivate Pictures
• film production
• red carpet interview
• psychological thriller
• Steven Spielberg

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Motivate Pictures, Motivate Pictures Europe

Books & works: The Color Purple, Finding Solace, The Devil Inside Us, Deja Vu, The Place She Dwells, Skills, The Heist, Light, Blue, Cold Love

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