How to Win an Academy Award (Almost) - #139: Frank Donner | BLKBX Creative Group

Finding Founders

You just heard about the time that Frank Donner made the painful decision to move back to Los Angeles, momentarily leaving behind his wife, his daughter, and well…me. Yes, you heard that right. Today, we are talking to my Dad: producer, actor, and family man. I’ve heard bits and pieces of his story before but now we’re taking a true deep dive. From working alongside the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Benicio del Toro at the prestigious Stella Adler conservatory, to the Academy Awards for best documentary, to running multinational companies, to starting his own marketing agency BLKBX Creative Group, Frank’s journey through Hollywood is certainly a lesson in adaptability. Like the overlapping highways of Los Angeles, Frank’s life could have gone in any direction…off any exit…to one of hundreds of vastly different neighborhoods. Yet what if only one route could bring him to the love of his life on a different continent? And what happens if, like Frank, we only have one moment in time to make the right decision? Let’s zoom in on this big picture and see Frank’s early childhood in Chicago, back when his future was as blank and unmarked as fresh winter snow…

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