Resilience for Filmmakers, Creatives & Solo Creators: Staying Lit When the World Says Quit

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Nikhil Kamkolkar

Resilience for Filmmakers, Creatives & Solo Creators

Staying Lit When the World Says Quit

Nikhil Kamkolkar

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English

Kamkol
06 October 2025

Film movie production: technical skills; Entrepreneurship; Memory improvement & thinking techniques

Series: Lantern Learnings

The question:

How do creative people keep making courageous work-and even grow-when the industry is unstable and the communities around them feel more draining than supportive?

This book doesn't promise shortcuts. It offers a lantern, illuminating field-tested practices you can use the same day you read them. No fluff. No grand theories. Just enough light for the next step.

Drawing on two decades in independent film and creative practice, Resilience for Filmmakers, Creatives & Solo Creators distills hard-won lessons into Lantern Learnings(TM)-clear principles for protecting your energy, choosing better partners, navigating politics cleanly, and keeping your art alive when recognition lags.

What's inside

Act I: Becoming - build a steady base: grace, presence, role, and purpose. Act II: Belonging - navigate partnerships, communities, boundaries, and breakups without losing yourself. Act III: Evolving - practice resilience in the real world: grit to endure and alchemy to turn setbacks into fuel.

You'll learn how to

Set boundaries without drama and protect your attention. Right-size ""hustle"" vs. sacred partnerships and read the politics of the room. Close loops cleanly, recover faster after conflict, and keep creating when recognition lags. Use simple scripts, checklists, and field prompts you can revisit when your focus wavers. Shift from wondering if you'll ever ""make it"" to letting your purpose help you ""make"" consistently.

Resilience isn't firework light. It's lantern light-ordinary, fragile, easy to overlook. But carried through the dark, it is enough.

Carry the lantern. Keep walking. Create anyway.

By: Nikhil Kamkolkar
Imprint: Kamkol
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 503g
ISBN: 9781970338027
ISBN 10: 1970338024
Series: Lantern Learnings
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 06 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nikhil Kamkolkar is a writer, filmmaker, and Unreal Authorized Instructor (Gold) whose work blends story, cinematography, and real-time technology. Passionate about virtual production and real-time visualization, he uses Unreal Engine across development, previs, and final pixels to craft innovative visual narratives.Nikhil is an Unreal Engine Animation Fellowship alum-an experience he credits with sharpening his real-time directing and pipeline design. He is currently in pre-production on a sci-fi short that integrates Unreal with emerging AI tools, exploring workflows he believes will reshape independent filmmaking.He wrote and directed the feature romantic comedy LOVE LOVE (streaming globally on Amazon Prime, HOOPLA and other platforms), along with several award-winning short films. His original TV pilots-spanning sci-fi, horror, and thriller-have placed in competitions including Screencraft and Final Draft Big Break. All while he worked day jobs at several companies like Microsoft, MTV, Nickelodeon, Topic etc. Several of his screenplays are available as books on Amazon.com and other book retailers, giving readers a behind-the-scenes look at his narrative craft and process.Based in New Jersey and traveling internationally for work, Nikhil's current focus sits at the crossroads of filmmaker practice, creative resilience, and real-time/AI tooling-helping artists build durable careers while shipping meaningful work.For more on Nikhil's work and to connect with him, visit KAM9.TV