Submerse yourself deep within basic knowledge about your filmmaking motivation, and equally as important to that, understand yourself. The key to success is a realistic foresight combined with an equally realistic understanding of what motivates us. It’s fundamental to understand the dynamics, demands and the level of openness required from within a successful filmmakers working […]

As any filmmaker will tell you, the key to a successful production is by not allowing your projects expenditure to go crazy and out of control. Usually the biggest lessons learned come out of pre-production when dealing with the classic independent film budgets. The budget is simply a plan that controls your spending and ensures […]

Get paid to be a filmmaker. A guide to climbing the industry and getting paid to work as a filmmaker and professional director.. “It’s a tough business…” Getting paid to work as a filmmaker might not be as anxiety inducing as you think. Get paid to be a filmmaker. If I had a penny for every-time I […]

You should be in the press… How to get press exposure for your film.. What can you bring to the table besides your film? “When we look at submissions, we always get two or three excellent films fighting it out for, annoyingly, just one slot. How do we choose? We take a look at what […]