“From Avocation To Vocation: How I Turned My Hobby Into A Career” With Robert Eagar of Buckhead Film Group

An interview with Phil La Duke

…If it’s something you truly love and/or feel led or called to do, there really is not a choice, you have to pursue it. If you don’t, you will live a life of regret. You will constantly feel incomplete and unfulfilled.

As a part of our series about entrepreneurs who transformed something they did for fun into a full-time career, I had the pleasure of interviewing Robert Eagar founder of Buckhead Film Group. Robert Eagar, who runs a mortgage company by day, always had a passion for film. In 2001, he decided to put a toe in the water and served as an extra on Remember the Titans. That led to a chance lunch with Denzel Washington. After that meeting, he decided to dive in to the industry. That same year, he wrote his first script for a film called Full Count, which he submitted to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Project Greenlight. The film made it through several rounds, but was eventually cut — but a fire was lit for Robert. The self-taught filmmaker continued to do to run his mortgage company during the day and wrote scripts at night and on weekends…