About this episode

Zoe East discusses her journey into freelancing and her focus on meaningful projects.

Zoe East has never had a proper job. A work experience placement at a big TV channel that felt old-fashioned and sexist put her off the traditional route before she'd even graduated, so she went freelance instead and never really looked back. That was over ten years ago. She started with whatever work came along. The niche found her gradually: charities doing meaningful work, heritage and culture projects, things that will matter just as much when someone watches them in ten years' time. This...

People in this episode

Host: Steve Folland

Guest: Zoe East

Topics covered

• freelancing
• career choices
• meaningful work
• filmmaking
• charity projects

Keywords

• freelance
• filmmaker
• charity
• heritage
• culture
• meaningful work
• career

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Organizations: TV channel

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