How To Build A Powerful Hollywood Network
You’re not alone if you’re wondering how to network in the movie business. I have mentioned this many times in my filmmaking courses, …
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How To Set Filmmaking Goals Fast (So You Can Make Your Movie)
In my time making movies, I’ve seen it all. Starting with just an idea and going through the ups and downs of making …
The 5 Laws For Landing Film Industry Jobs
If you’re a newbie to filmmaking, I’m going to give you the advice I learned early on. This has since become my work and success philosophy. And as you chart your film career, maybe this stuff is worth considering.
How To Establish A Career In The Movie Business
If you find yourself faced with filmmaking self doubt, you’re not alone. The important part is that you at least get a picture of what you want that is very specific. Then you should take time to work backwards. And who knows, maybe a decade from now we will be working on movie projects together.
How To Get Local Publicity For Your Film
When trying to promote a movie that folks have otherwise not heard of, all ink is potentially good ink. If you’re producing your movie …
How A Filmmaking Mentor Can Help You
As a filmmaker, establishing a mentor is invaluable. Without my mentor, I would have never gone to NYC, would have never made a movie and would have never fell on my financial face—and recovered. Consequently, I would have never made the move to California, produced features or written these words.
Time to Make A Movie
In this filmmaking article, LA Producer Jason Brubaker shares ideas on what to do when it’s time to make a movie.
Crowdfunding For The Canyons
Writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) has teamed up with writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and producer Braxton Pope to create the new feature titled The Canyons. But unlike most movies produced in Hollywood, what makes this project different than most projects is…
Push To Meet Filmmaking Deadlines
Now with a few weeks into the new year, many would-be filmmakers who promised themselves they would be more – many have already made excuses as to why this year won’t be the year of the feature.
Leverage Your Following | Sell Your Movie PT 7
One of the most important filmmaking strategies you must adopt in this era of modern moviemaking is a long term perspective. In years past, filmmakers focused on making one movie, selling it and then moving on to the next movie.
Filmmaking Lesson 19 Edit Your Movie
Editing your movie is the final rewrite of your film. This is the time when you add all sorts of amazing layers to …
Free 21 Part Filmmaking mini Course
If you never made a movie, take the filmmaking stuff, free 21 part filmmaking mini course.
Filmmaking Lesson 15 Hollywood Publicity
Publicity is great. Especially when it’s free. And especially when the publicity is international. When we produced our first zombie movie, we had …
Filmmaking Lesson14 Schedule Your Movie
I’m here today to remind you that whenever you’re producing a movie, a whole lot can change between development and prep. Assuming you …
Filmmaking Lesson 13 Get The Money Part 2
As I mentioned in previous lessons, the name of the game in your first feature is to cut the need for hard cash, …
Filmmaking Lesson 18 Production Part 2
Once you build momentum during production, assuming you meticulously planned everything, you’ll soon find that most everyone working on the movie will fall …
Filmmaking Lesson 21 Distribution
SELF DISTRIBUTION By now, you probably have a website that promotes your movie. You can now rework your website into an e-commerce site …
Filmmaking Lesson 17 Production Part 1
Production is a result of months and months of planning. I’ll repeat this. When making a movie, production results from months and months …