Atlanta Film Festival 2025 Creative Conference (Day 6) - Star Wars Explained: Creating a Successful YouTube Channel

From the venue:

Star Wars Explained: Creating a Successful YouTube Channel

Alex and Molly Damon run the very successful YouTube channel Star Wars Explained, where they regularly post news, reviews, and analysis of everything happening in a galaxy far, far away. Started in 2015, Star Wars Explained has gone on to become one of the biggest channels on YouTube devoted to the sci-fi franchise, and Alex and Molly have a unique perspective on things now that they have established themselves as one of the premiere Star Wars channels out there. This panel will explain what it takes to run a successful YouTube channel, explore alternate career paths in the media for production professionals, discuss turning your hobby into your job, and how to deal with both the light side and dark side of fandom. This wide-ranging conversation will explore the differing avenues of production and the ever-changing media landscape, showing how one couple has turned a global media franchise into an independent career for themselves.

Moderator:

Nathan Cabaniss

Nathan Cabaniss is a writer and filmmaker hailing from North Georgia. He's had short stories published in various anthologies and e-zines, in both English and in French. He has also written online for the websites Birth.Movies.Death, Sequart and Screen Rant.

Panelists: Alex and Molly Damon

Alex and Mollie Damon run Star Wars Explained, a YouTube channel all about keeping up with the latest Star Wars books, comics, video games, TV shows, and of course, films.