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FILMMAKING STUFF Tactics.

If you're seeking advice on how to fund, produce and sell your movie, these filmmaking articles will help you. You'll find that each article provides creative ideas and tips, with links to further information about filmmaking.

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Pandemic Filmmaking

Fueling the Next Media Evolution: Lessons for Pandemic Filmmaking

Last year inextricably altered the ways that we connect, collaborate, and create. While physical distance poses some challenges (and likely many …

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Film Financing

The Secret to Getting Film Financing (The Smart Way)

“How do I get film financing?” is a question that filmmakers ask over and over again. This makes sense because funding …

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get a movie made

Get a Movie Made: 5 Things You Need To Know

In this filmmaking article, film finance expert Tom Malloy shares tactics on how to get a movie made, with the 5 essential strategies you need to succeed.

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Filmmakers Move To Hollywood

Question: Should Filmmakers Move To Hollywood?

One big question asked in the indie film community is this: Should filmmakers move to Hollywood? Take a quick sec to read this filmmaker's response.

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successful filmmaking

The 5 Immutable Laws of Successful Filmmaking

Serious indie filmmakers stop at noting until the movie is actually in the can – or these days – in your hard drive. Still if you've been working to make movies for any length of time, you know there are days when you hit obstacles, sometimes so seemingly insurmountable that you just want to give up on your project. Don't do it!

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storage unit filmmaking

Quarantine: How I Made An Award Winning Feature Film In My Storage Unit

In my late twenties, I promised myself I would make a feature by the time I was 40 years old. I …

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pitch your film project

How To Pitch Your Film Project To Prospective Investors

Assuming you have met with a lawyer and figured out a way to protect yourself legally – If you aren't afraid to hear the word “NO,” then what is stopping you from setting up a meeting and presenting your ideas to prospective investors? It doesn't always mean you'll get the money (if it were easy, everybody would be doing it.) – but it does mean that every NO is one no closer to YES!

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first feature

How To Make Your First Feature Without Going Bonkers

Sooner or later the filmmaking bug hits you. . . It's like a far off voice or compulsion. But like breathing, for the serious independent filmmaker, the need to make a feature is always present.

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