Journey has been rewarding for risk-taking filmmakers

By Mike Gordon

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 09, 2012

~~<p>There's a point in every good story where the hero must decide whether the headlong dive to glory is worth the risk of failure.</p>
<p>For Kenji Doughty that moment arrived when he was a production assistant whose job was to monitor life jackets on the film "Battleship." He had to choose between returning to college for the fall semester or getting as close as possible to the greatest passion of his life: making movies.</p>
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There's a point in every good story where the hero must decide whether the headlong dive to glory is worth the risk of failure.

For Kenji Doughty that moment arrived when he was a production assistant whose job was to monitor life jackets on the film "Battleship." He had to choose between returning to college for the fall semester or getting as close as possible to the greatest passion of his life: making movies. Login for more...