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Guest Post: Leah Warshawski on "Navigating Rejection With Grace"
The process of getting a film made is a long climb through rejection, neglect, frustration, and even some hostility. Those that "know", tell you that it is impossible -- but still tens of thousands of films get made every year despite this knowledge of the "experts". Being a filmmaker takes incred...
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Guest Post: Orly Ravid "Going to Market with Your Film, Cannes 2011"
Ah, it's that time of year again. I just booked my travel at Cannes; of course I did it last minute. My love for the market is as great as my dislike, alas. The place is filled equally with hope as despair. The promise of wealth and discovery looms with every glass of Rose and Pernod -- and I a...
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Guest Post: Hal Siegel "Virality And The Potential Of Social Films”
It is only through our communal efforts, and subsequent sharing of our processes, successes, and failures, that we will find a way for our creative work to find & build audiences, transform them into communities, and as a result build a new creative middle class that will able to support themselves ...
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Guest Post: Jordan Passman "Value What You Use: The Film + Music Equation"
Just because you can do something, does that mean that you should. Do short term needs always outweigh long term goals? Does obtaining services for less than they are worth make you a good producer?
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Guest Post: Sam Rosen & Nat Bennett "Getting Un-Stuck and Making it Work"
Today's guest post comes from two emerging filmmakers, Sam Rosen and Nat Bennett, who had a screenplay that caught my eye back when. Now they have their first film in the Tribeca Film Festival. Their path to getting it made revealed some lessons, ones that are applicable to all of us. You can boi...
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Guest Post: Rob Mills "Online Distribution: 10 Lessons from Dynamo Player"
It used to be that indie filmmakers generally made their films for an audience/market of 6-10; those days their audience was the buyers at the film festivals. Those days made life simple: filmmakers had two responsibilities -- make your damn movie and then surrender. The idea then was that distrib...
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Guest Post: Mike Ryan on "Let's Celebrate The 'Collapse' Of The Indie Film Bubble"
Is it necessary to earn a "good" living creating ambitious work? Should it be enough just to get the opportunity, to hear the calling, of making films outside of the mainstream commercial industry? Can we ever give enough thanks and appreciation that we don't have to weld, lift, push paper, or aid...
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Guest Post: Rodney Evans on "Building Communites & Embracing New Models"
Why do we wait so damn long for our projects to come together? Do we fetishize "permission"? Is it akin to waiting for Prince Charming or the like? Is patience really a virtue for creative endeavors? Have we fooled ourselves into thinking we can depend on anyone other than our family, friends, an...
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Guest Post: Audrey Ewell "Until The Light Takes Us case study: DIY and DIWO International Release"
What do you do? You have no money but KNOW your film has an audience. Even sometimes with great content, the world conspires and leaves us all alone, just meat for the vipers. Often, a good movie is not enough to make it in this world. Faced with surrender or the long hard road, it's then that ...
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Guest Post: Bob Ray "Bringing It To The People, The Badass Way"
How do you do it? If the mainstream industry and the mainstream festivals are not responding to your work, does it mean there's no audience or community for you work? HELL, NO! You just have to bring it to where they are. It might be hard. It might be grueling. And it will be brutal, but it ca...
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