You’ve made a film – congratulations. Are you hitting film festival brick walls? Every year about this time I start getting emails from filmmakers complaining about their treatment at the hands of film festival programmers who have skipped over their film. There’s even expensive professional advisers who train disgruntled filmmakers how to do better with […]
Lack of money are not the the main compromises low budget filmmakers make. It is once the film is made that the competiiton for eueballs, distribution and more importantly money to repay investors.
Anyone who’s ever created something worth sharing knows that lightning doesn’t just land in a bottle of its own accord, not even for a select few. Every artist hits a slump once in a while. For the imagination to flourish, it needs time to reset itself – and that’s exactly what burnout is. It’s not […]
Of all the painful steps in the movie business, probably the most painful is making your first movie. Playing your film for the very first time to an empty room. Unless of course, it’s screening to a roomful of people who laugh in the wrong places. Or shaking hands with well-wishers who avoid direct eye-contact […]
I met with an emerging filmmaker today who said the budget she had a script she was developing was two – three mil. I asked her if she had ever heard of guerrilla filmmaking. Of course she hadn’t. She then mentioned a film I executive produced in 2019 – Alice. And said how great it […]
Your film is finished and now what? Its film festivals of course. And when you submit how do you know if your are accepted. And if you are accepted, what is the most glamorous city or trip you can take in support of your film festival premiere? Do I really have to give you any […]
No one said running a film festival was easy. So many different strands, and so much to worry about. And OMG! The money! Where does it all go? There’s never enough. But thankfully, thanks to a brand new way of event organisation there is an app that ensures that your event, your film, or in […]
Everyone is screaming for content. And I know you want to make your first movie, but my guess is you don’t know where to start. Best of all, you can do it with a few simple tools. Today I’m going to break down 10 essential filmmaker tools that will help you get that great idea […]
You have scoured underground theatre and have a list of actors so sizzling hot you can hardly wait to launch their careers in the movies. At film festivals you have seen scores of shorts and debut features from which you have short-listed several directors you would like to work with. All of this has been […]
Only a few people stop to consider how much effort it takes to create a wonderful film after they have seen it. They may look into how much the performers were offered or what type of budget the picture had, but there’s no way to properly understand what it takes to create a film until […]
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