Harvey Hubbell
Award-winning documentary
filmmaker
Unable to sound out the word “Coca-Cola” in class, Harvey Hubbell eventually learned to read outside the school system. Although he was ejected unceremoniously from his first college class on writing, he says he bears his teacher no ill will; instead, he discovered that his ability to think in pictures, rather than words, was his strength.
The winner of more than 50 film and video festival awards, he has learned to surround himself with people whose strengths compensate for his weaknesses. “Find the things you want to do that make you happy,” he says, “then do them 8 to 16 hours a day.”