Four Tips For Scoring Your Film (For Indie Filmmakers)
Scoring your film can have a sort of mystical power over the mind. The perfect song paired with the picture can make you …
A Script Reader’s 5 Essential Tips For Screenwriters
As someone who has worked as a Script Analyst for the past decade, I am often asked to provide useful tips for screenwriters. …
Fighting The Urge To Quit Filmmaking
Picture this! You leave your small town and move to New York City so you could go after your filmmaking dreams. Because you don’t have much money, you rent the edge of some dude’s cockroach infested kitchen floor – sleeping on an inflatable air mattress…
Why Filmmakers Fail At Film Festivals
I have been speaking at quite a few film festivals. And what I find is, many filmmakers are still stuck in an old paradigm that no longer exists. In the past, most filmmakers dreamed of getting their movies seen and sold at festivals, followed by a 3 picture deal. But the reality is, these types of deals are…
3 Useful Tools So You Can Build An Email List For Your Film
With the demise of traditional DVD distribution, you as a filmmaker are responsible for your audience. Why? Because your audience is your business – and without an audience you will have no movie business. Having an audience database for your movie is essential…
Film Distribution: How To Negotiate Minimum Guarantees
Picture this. Your movie is in the festivals. People like it. You’re getting tons of buzz. And for the past three days, you …
7 Ways To Build A Strong Filmmaking Crew (So You Can Make Your Film)
Ever notice that the same directors and producers always seem to work with the same filmmaking crew? There’s a reason for it. They know …
5 Tips To Plan Your Film Festival Strategy
As an independent filmmaker with a short documentary about to hit the festival circuit, I am faced once again with planning my film …
15 Steps to Creating Mise-en-Scene in Your Next Film
In filmmaking, the term Mise-en-Scene refers to identifying each component through analysis and explaining the respective significance while connecting them to the film’s theme. …
Digital Self Distribution: How To Sell Your Movie Online
Looking to get film distribution? In this filmmaking article, we discuss digital self distribution and how to sell your movie online.
Film Distribution: How To Get Your Movie To Market Fast
In this filmmaking article, LA Producer Jason Brubaker explains why most filmmakers wait seven months before selling their movies and why you shouldn’t.
The Zen of Digital Film Distribution (So You Can Sell Your Film)
The demise of DVD distribution, coupled with inexpensive production technology, has flooded the market with cheaply produced, accessible movies. For most filmmakers, basing …
Crowdfunding For Filmmakers: How To Create Irresistible Incentives
Crowdfunding incentives (perks/rewards) are the muscle and might behind an indie film campaign. Lately, however, I see filmmakers getting less and less creative and …
Five Lessons I Learned Making A Low Budget Feature
Making my low budget feature film, Earshot, was groundbreaking and exciting. And it was also a huge learning experience. It was the first …
The Entrepreneurial Filmmakers Guide to Self Distribution
Got a movie? Are you looking to create a self distribution film campaign so you can start selling? Then this film distribution article is for you.
How To Grow Your Movie Audience Email List In 3 Simple Steps!
If you are looking to market your movie inexpensively, you need to Grow Your Email List. Here are some tactics.
The Secrets of Successful Online Movie Advertising
In this filmmaking article, film distribution we explore the secrets of online movie advertising… And how YOU can use this info to sell more movies.
Why Aren’t There More Fresh Ideas In Hollywood?
A comment I hear sometimes when I listen to producers is “Why aren’t there more fresh ideas in Hollywood?” Let’s leave aside the …
What Carole Lee Dean Can Teach Us About Producing
If you were making movies 20 years ago it would cost you 10 times more to make a film. So ask yourself, “why was I given so much talent and born during the third most important time in the history of mankind.” Here you are with a great opportunity and all that talent. Do you really believe the universe would put you here at this time and not finance you? Of course not.
How To Grow Your Audience (Even If You Hate Social Media)
This filmmaking article provides three tips on how to grow your audience (even If you hate social media.) Learn how to become a filmmaking rock star.
How To Avoid Major Filmmaking Headaches
As a filmmaker, you are focused on making a movie. You have a gazillion things on your plate. And the last thing you …
5 Ways to Promote Your Film Fast
If you are promoting your movie online, you need to create a simple website. You should have a trailer, an about page, a buy now button, links to your social networks and an easy way for someone to sign up for your audience list.
Five Ways To Make Your Short Film Awesome
When I got into filmmaking, short films were viewed as a calling card. You’d make a short, get into festivals and hope someone …
Gaffer Tape: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Marty Gage knows about gaffer tape. He teamed up with a leading tape manufacturer and in 2013 launched Gaffer Power, a company determined to create the market’s best gaffer tape.
How To Build Your Filmmaking Team Without Crooks
What I’m about to share is a cautionary tale, which should hopefully provide insights on how to build your filmmaking team, so you …
How To Start (and keep) A Career In Film
If you’re looking for a career in film, you’re not alone. Each year, thousands of ambitious Hollywood hopefuls arrive in Los Angeles, eager …
Five Tips For Marketing Your Movie (Before You Make It)
Marketing your movie doesn’t have to be complicated. In this film distribution article, Jason Brubaker shares five tips for marketing your movie.
Confessions of A Film Acquisitions Executive
In the world of VOD, finding a traditional distribution deal that actually makes sense is challenging. In this article, we discuss modern Film Acquisitions.
How to Make a Micro-Budget Feature Without Spending a Fortune
A little while back, we completed a micro-budget feature called “Wake Me When I Leave.” It’s a sixty-four minute psychological horror thriller. And …
The Minimalist Guide To Leveraging Short Form Content
Making a living as a filmmaker can be a tricky thing to pull off. Sure big-name directors can afford homes in Malibu and …