– Return to the actor’s section Casting Actors Correctly. Tips, tricks, and philosophical discussions for casting your next film. Using your resources available when casting actors. Every town, worth living in has a theatre of some shape or form. Casting actors correctly. Theatres are the central hubs for live creative output for many people of all […]

………How to increase exposure of your work to a worldwide audience including gaining the attention of film festival’s, VOD distribution channels, fellow filmmakers and large chunks of potential audience. How to use twitter to promote your film.   1. How to use twitter to promote your film? Start early. It makes all the sense in […]

How to Find Film Funding. Point 1.. Figure out what’s important. Ask yourself the honest question, do I really need that camera, lens kit or lighting rig? If you’re an indie filmmaker thinking big, great, but don’t allow the technical snobbery of a Director of Photography force you into thinking that you can’t afford to […]

Characterization in film. It’s an artistic formula. As an indie filmmaker it is more than likely that you are the writer, director, photographer, editor and promoter of your work. Balancing your focus and time can be very tricky, especially when you have very strong technical voices on the project who believe they have priority over […]

How to direct an actor for film. Preparing them to enter your world. As a film festival we receive lots of films everyday from projects where it is clear that the directing of the actor(s) has failed. This post on how to direct an actor for film, describes the many tricks we’ve learnt as filmmakers, […]