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A comprehensive master class for Gen Z and millennials to find happiness in a challenging world.
Peter Samuelson has always thought that walls are meant for climbing. He has repeatedly found the hidden door and climbed over those walls, gone around them, or blown them up. The child of a father who left school at fourteen, he was first in his family to attend college and graduated from Cambridge on a full academic scholarship. He was the worried but ambitious immigrant who came to America alone. He has produced twenty-seven films, including successful comedies, tragedies, and dramas...but he started decades ago making coffee for the crew. He's the founder of five major charities that have raised over $1 billion for those less fortunate, in four countries over forty years. He's a really happy guy who explains how he got here, the producer who got the star who refused to work out of his trailer. Samuelson is a compelling storyteller with a good memory for mad events and crazy people. He's the man who hid prop machine guns under his bed in Marrakech and nearly died rescuing a kitten. Most important of all, he has mentored hundreds of underprivileged kids and worked out how to help them develop ambition and build their own worthwhile lives. It's all in the stories he tells.
About the Author
Co-founder and president of First Star (seventeen high school academies on college campuses for youth in foster care) and CEO of PhilmCo Media llc. (commercial films that use empathy to improve society), Peter Samuelson is a serial pro-social entrepreneur. In 1982, he co-founded the Starlight Children's Foundation (psychosocial services for seriously ill children). By 1990, the positive impact of Starlight seeded his next pro-social endeavor, Starbright World (the world's first avatar-based navigable social network for seriously ill teenagers), co-founded with Steven Spielberg. Following that, 1999 saw the formation of First Star; 2005 the founding of EDAR, the Everyone Deserves a Roof initiative (single-user mobile homeless shelters); and 2013 the launch of ASPIRE, the Academy for Social Purpose in Responsible Entertainment (media training for undergraduates not in film schools). In the midst of all this, Samuelson has produced twenty-seven films and raised four children. Educated at Cambridge and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, he has been married to Saryl for thirty-five years, and continues to fight every day for those less fortunate, chief among them America's abused and neglected children.
First in his family to attend college, Samuelson graduated from Cambridge on a full scholarship with a Masters in English Literature. After serving as production manager on films such as The Return of the Pink Panther, he emigrated from England to Los Angeles and produced Revenge of the Nerds, Tom & Viv, Wilde, Arlington Road, and twenty-three other films. Samuelson served on the three-person founding board of Participant Media, Jeff Skoll's pro-social media company, which produced An Inconvenient Truth, The Help, Spotlight, and Green Book. From 2012 to 2013, Samuelson was the founding managing director of the Media Institute for Social Change at the University of Southern California.
Samuelson divides his time between producing films and serving pro bono as cofounder of the Starlight Children's Foundation (www.starlight.org) with Steven Spielberg and founder and serving president of First Star (http://www.firststar.org/) and the Everyone Deserves a Roof initiative of Los Angeles (www.edar.org). He holds U.S. Patent No. 10,227,791 for a Single User Mobile Homeless Shelter. Samuelson lives in Los Angeles. Learn more at: www.samuelson.la.
Book Information
ISBN 9798888458716
Author Peter Samuelson
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Regalo Press
Publisher Post Hill Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Peter Samuelson has always thought that walls are meant for climbing. He has repeatedly found the hidden door and climbed over those walls, gone around them, or blown them up. The child of a father who left school at fourteen, he was first in his family to attend college and graduated from Cambridge on a full academic scholarship. He was the worried but ambitious immigrant who came to America alone. He has produced twenty-seven films, including successful comedies, tragedies, and dramas...but he started decades ago making coffee for the crew. He's the founder of five major charities that have raised over $1 billion for those less fortunate, in four countries over forty years. He's a really happy guy who explains how he got here, the producer who got the star who refused to work out of his trailer. Samuelson is a compelling storyteller with a good memory for mad events and crazy people. He's the man who hid prop machine guns under his bed in Marrakech and nearly died rescuing a kitten. Most important of all, he has mentored hundreds of underprivileged kids and worked out how to help them develop ambition and build their own worthwhile lives. It's all in the stories he tells.
About the Author
Co-founder and president of First Star (seventeen high school academies on college campuses for youth in foster care) and CEO of PhilmCo Media llc. (commercial films that use empathy to improve society), Peter Samuelson is a serial pro-social entrepreneur. In 1982, he co-founded the Starlight Children's Foundation (psychosocial services for seriously ill children). By 1990, the positive impact of Starlight seeded his next pro-social endeavor, Starbright World (the world's first avatar-based navigable social network for seriously ill teenagers), co-founded with Steven Spielberg. Following that, 1999 saw the formation of First Star; 2005 the founding of EDAR, the Everyone Deserves a Roof initiative (single-user mobile homeless shelters); and 2013 the launch of ASPIRE, the Academy for Social Purpose in Responsible Entertainment (media training for undergraduates not in film schools). In the midst of all this, Samuelson has produced twenty-seven films and raised four children. Educated at Cambridge and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, he has been married to Saryl for thirty-five years, and continues to fight every day for those less fortunate, chief among them America's abused and neglected children.
First in his family to attend college, Samuelson graduated from Cambridge on a full scholarship with a Masters in English Literature. After serving as production manager on films such as The Return of the Pink Panther, he emigrated from England to Los Angeles and produced Revenge of the Nerds, Tom & Viv, Wilde, Arlington Road, and twenty-three other films. Samuelson served on the three-person founding board of Participant Media, Jeff Skoll's pro-social media company, which produced An Inconvenient Truth, The Help, Spotlight, and Green Book. From 2012 to 2013, Samuelson was the founding managing director of the Media Institute for Social Change at the University of Southern California.
Samuelson divides his time between producing films and serving pro bono as cofounder of the Starlight Children's Foundation (www.starlight.org) with Steven Spielberg and founder and serving president of First Star (http://www.firststar.org/) and the Everyone Deserves a Roof initiative of Los Angeles (www.edar.org). He holds U.S. Patent No. 10,227,791 for a Single User Mobile Homeless Shelter. Samuelson lives in Los Angeles. Learn more at: www.samuelson.la.
Book Information
ISBN 9798888458716
Author Peter Samuelson
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Regalo Press
Publisher Post Hill Press
Weight(grams) 333g
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Subtitle: |
A User's Guide to Your Life, with Lessons from Mine |
Imprint: |
Regalo Press |
