All posts tagged "budget"
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How They Did It: I Set a Start Date for My $250,000 Film, September Morning, and Stuck to it No Matter What
“How did you find the money?” That’s the question I’ve gotten most from my fellow indie filmmakers the last couple of years. It’s usually asked...
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The Tipping Point: How a Bartender Used Take-Home Cash to Self-Fund His $15K Feature
On my last day of film school, my class had a career advisor come in to take a sort of census of our realistic goals. He’d...
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Can an Algorithm Really Produce a Useful Movie Budget? Film Budgeteers More or Less Hits the Target
A new online app that promises to create a budget for your independent film in a few easy steps based on information you provide through...
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First Draft: How to Gauge Your Screenplay’s Budget While Writing It
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “I’m a screenwriter. It’s not my job...
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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, knowing that if they did their job well, they...
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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 signatory process. Engaging SAG can be a tricky process,...
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Things I’ve Learned: Chris Weitz’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking
This week, our Things I’ve Learned come from the Hollywood jack-of-all-trades that is Chris Weitz. The consummate professional reminds fellow moviemakers to avoid clichés and always...
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Grassroots Moviemaker: The Five Stages of Budget Grief
At some point in our moviemaking lives we’re all going to face the loss of something very dear to us. That grief can seem unbearable,...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...