Guest Posts

FREE! Everything you didn't know you need to know about making an independent film

Reed Martin has kindly provided us with the opening chapter to his book The Reel Truth for free online. Subtitled "Everything you didn't know you need to know about making an independent film," it's a great resource for anybody involved in independent film. Read and enjoy.

Josef Astor on "The 4 Scariest Things About Kickstarter"

A few months ago, Jennifer Fox wrote a guest post for this very site, a three-part, 29-point guide to running a successful Kickstarter campaign. Fox’s groundbreaking documentary My Reincarnation had recently broken all Kickstarter records and would ultimately go on to raise over $150,000,...

Blake Whitman presents Vimeo Perks

6 Tips on How to Finish Your Micro-Budget Film

We don't want to repeat each other's mistakes. We have to learn to admit what we've done wrong. And we have to share the lessons we've learned. We learn what to do better the next time, by fucking up famously the first time. Second films are rich terrain precisely for this reason....

NYFA's Consulting Program for Filmmakers

Matthew Seig informs of a helpful new program for New York Filmmakers. Don't miss out on it!

Jeff Orgill on "Anatomy of a Prescreen Launch"

Back in August SherI Candler introduced us to the new curating and distribution service here.

Kobi Shely on "FilmDIY -- The Filmmaker's Guide To The Interweb"

John Bruce on "Far From Afghanistan: Mission, Means, and Movement Building"

I think it is more than three years ago now that I first spoke of Truly Free Film. My hope then, as it is now, that artistic, social, and political motivations would harness the new technologies and it's tools to usher in a transformation from a mass-market driven entertainment economy to a communi...

Collaboration 101: Working With Your Partner (In Life And On Set) -- Part 3 of 3

The last two days, Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine have been sharing how they have navigated both a personal and professional collaborative relationship. For me, my curiosity about their process was sparked when I watched Sophia's GREEN, a feature that moved, impressed, and scared me. I look forward to collaborating more fully with my wife on our movies (albeit only behind the camera), but watching Sophia's film, I knew I had a lot to still learn about the how to of the dual pursuit.I will be presenting GREEN in a little more than a week from now at my HopeForFilm screening series, and it is not a film you should miss. GREEN premi...