How To Find A Film Industry Mentor
Finding a movie industry mentor can be invaluable to your filmmaking success. This week, we will focus on how to find a mentor.
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What To Do When Your Filmmaking Sucks Real Bad
What do you do when your filmmaking sucks? It is tough to admit that a movie you made (that you thought was brilliant) …
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.
How To Avoid Your Biggest Filmmaking Mistake
The biggest filmmaking mistake you can make is waiting for someone else to give you permission make movies. Read this filmmaking article.
The Price of Hollywood
Filmmaking in Hollywood is a tough career. What price will you pay to become successful in Hollywood?
Pick Your Peers And Level Up Your Filmmaking
If you want to level up your filmmaking career, you need to pick your peers wisely. I’m speaking from experience when I tell …
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 …
3 Reasons You Will Fail In Filmmaking (Avoid The Excuses)
In this filmmaking article, LA producer Jason Brubaker points out 3 reasons you will fail in filmmaking. (Unless you avoid these excuses)
Changes In The Movie Industry
Yesterday I had breakfast with a studio executive from one of the Majors here in Los Angeles. Much of what we talked about revolved around changes in the movie industry and how many of the studio folks are slow to implement new ideas. With an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 independent movies flooding the market each year, the movie industry is experiencing what happens to any industry when cheap labor, inexpensive production…
Filmmaking Stuff Is On Face Book
Your friendships with other filmmakers dictate the scope and scale of your movies. And while not everyone you meet in the movie industry is going to become your best friend, it’s always great to know who to call, to help you make things happen.
How to Take Charge of Your Film Scheduling
For those of you considering producing your first feature, Film Scheduling is an invaluable part of the process. Your 1st AD is in charge of taking your screenplay, breaking it down and providing the initial schedule. That information is later used to budget your movie.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Get
When I was in college, I took a sales job, selling spas at local carnivals to raise money for my first 16mm film.