Episode 232 - Scott Wright, Wise Rabbit Films
Episode 232 is the 30th episode of Season 4.
Today we're joined by Scott Wright, president of Wise Rabbit Films and a documentary filmmaker who describes filmmaking as his fourth incarnation. Before film he spent 25 years as a radio DJ under the name Shadow Steele, worked as an executive in the record industry, and later became a winemaker and wine importer, before turning to documentaries and screenwriting later in life. His earlier films include the wine documentary Three Days of Glory and the John Waite music documentary The Hard Way, and he has written five feature screenplays. His newest project, and the heart of this conversation, is The Next Chapter, a documentary about older people turning to psychedelic-assisted therapy.
In this one Scott opens up about taking his first real psilocybin journey at 68, guided by a facilitator in San Miguel de Allende, and how that experience reoriented his life and pulled him out of decades of introversion toward community and connection. He shares how that journey led directly to The Next Chapter, which follows a group of people in their 50s and 60s from the US, Canada and the UK through a guided retreat and then revisits them a year later. He gets into the craft of documentary making and learning to let a film become what it wants to be, along with using microdosing to unlock creativity and his screenwriting. Throughout he keeps returning to why he made it, to let a generation that feels underserved by conventional mental health care know this path is available to them.
Find The Next Chapter and its screening schedule at thenextchapterfilm.com. Learn more about Scott's work at wise-rabbit.com, follow Wise Rabbit Films on Instagram @wiserabbitfilms, or reach him directly at scott@wise-rabbit.com.
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