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The Low Down on Gap Financing: How Does it Work, and is it for You?
Gap financing: You may have heard the term before. But what does it mean—and, more importantly,...
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Horror Stories: Examining the Business of Genre Filmmaking
A decade ago, the primary focus of independent horror moviemakers was making a good horror movie,...
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Breaking the Mold: Bodybuilder Mo Anouti Turns Actor and Producer in Hero of the Day
If you’re a would-be moviemaker nervous about the dive from a non-creative job into the risky...
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Rookie Mistakes: What A First-Time Producer Learned Making The Demon’s Rook
Two first-time filmmakers team up to make a microbudget, DIY fantasy-horror feature about “a portal that...
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Behind the Gate: Co-Director and EP Mark Giardino
Behind the Gate is co-directors Jack Lucarelli and Mark Giardino’s documentary about the tremendous efforts that...
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She’s Just Not That Into You: Lessons Before You Make A Deal With SAG
This Wisdom Wednesday, producer Randy Bobbitt (It’s Gawd) shares invaluable lessons he’s learned about the SAG...
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My New Film: American Jesus Is Not A Horror Movie
Larry Fessenden, producer of the new documentary American Jesus, explains why Glass Eye Pix became involved in...
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Short Films: Sharpen Your Script Before Page One
You just got a great concept for a short film. It moves you. It excites you....
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How They Did It: 11 Keys to Filming in a Small Town
It’s often said that creating a boot-strapped, no-budget independent film is a lot like raising a...
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DIY Legal: Telling the Truth Without Paying for It
Fact or fiction? For this week’s DIY Monday MovieMaker is exploring how to limit your liability when...
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How to Crowdfund, Really: An Actionable Timeline
Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, explains why crowdfunding is more about the crowd than...
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The Working Class Moviemaker: Joe Swanberg’s 10 Tips on Earning a Living Making Microbudget Films
Stanley Kubrick and Robert Bresson each helmed 13 feature films over the span of their careers....
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Five Great Indiegogo Film Campaigns: and What You Can Learn from Them
John T. Trigonis, Category Marketing Manager of Film, Web and Video at Indiegogo, takes an instructional...
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Fictionalizing Truth: Lee Daniel’s The Butler & More
We’ve all seen those stately biopics (usually with Oscar aspirations), in which renowned actors portray real-life...
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Accepting Applications: Dogfish, the world’s first film production accelerator
Back in 2005, Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell, two tech pioneers who’d made fortunes in Silicon...
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The MovieMaker Manifesto: A Document for an Oppressed Majority
If French film in the 1950s was a convalescent in a hospice, as Godard and Truffaut...
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We Make Movies (Better): Making Your Movie with Zero Money
Prologue This is the article you’ve been waiting for. You have a movie that you’re aching...
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The Happy Hustler: A Lesson in Creative Budgeting
If the rules don’t make sense, a hustler (and every independent moviemaker must be a hustler)...
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Crowdfunding 2.0: How to Stand Above the Crowd
As far as fundraising for your film goes, we all know that a decade ago you...
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We Make Movies (Better): Please Don’t Have the Following Conversation About Your Movie with Anyone
When I talk to filmmakers, way too often I have a version of the following conversation:...
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We Make Movies: How I Started an Indie Film Collective
My name is Sam Mestman, and I run a film collective in Los Angeles and Toronto...
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AFI is a wrap, but Maja Milos’ CLIP is still haunting me
My girlfriend and I managed to attend eight films at AFI this year over the course...
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Resurrecting Sixto Rodriguez: Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugarman
In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a...
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Lights, Camera, Social Action: The Disposable Film Festival
With our world’s amazing technology making spectacular cameras small, cheap and ubiquitous, new types of moviemaking...
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