Elliott Lester got his start making music videos for everyone from Jessica Simpson and Selena Gomez to Alicia Keys and Method Man. He got his start as a filmmaker with funding from an unusual source. But then the big break came when he was offered a movie called Blitz, starring Jason Statham and Paddy Considine, it's about a serial k!ller who hunts cops.Later, after his divorce, Elliott was offered a script for the movie, Nightingale, starring David Oyelowo and he could not get the funding, everyone turned him down. But he did have another interesting source to fund the film. Once the movie is done, Elliott, once again, hit a wall and couldn’t get the film into any film festivals.But with the help of Brad Pitt and his company Plan B, the film’s trajectory made a complete 180. The film went on to win awards and nominations (Golden Globes, Emmys) a ...