Episode#407 Pizza's Paul Fenech on Making it Film & Television

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Paul Fenech is an Australian filmmaker, film and television actor, director, producer and writer.

He is best known for writing, directing, producing and starring in the television series Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers, Housos and Bogan Hunters and the motion picture Fat Pizza.

In this conversation, we unpack:

- Fenech's rise to fame

- Making it in a competitive industry

- Mental resilience, discipline, and toughness

- Diversity quotas v merit

- Learning from failure

- The modern media landscape

- Cancel culture

- Fenech's new book about the life and times of bikie Phil 'Ugly' Mawson

- Lockdown laws in Australia

Show Notes:

Get the book: UGLY - https://www.amazon.com.au/UGLY-Bikies...

Watch Pizza on-demand on 7Plus: https://7plus.com.au/fat-pizza-back-i...

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