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Success Leaves Clues
Well I had a banner day yesterday on the packaging front. But I won’t start the story there – instead, I will start by telling you that for the week prior, I had been going through hell with a particular project on my slate. A project I had invested significant amounts of time and money [...]
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Nobody Cares What You Spent On Your Film
I was watching the real estate show Selling LA on HGTV last night and as usual, there was that one pesky client who refuses to see things for how they really are. For example, the market may dictate that a one bedroom condo on the Wilshire Corridor goes for something in the $800K range, but [...]
How To Get People To Care About Your Crowd Funding Campaign
Every day it seems I get a minimum of 6 emails from filmmakers asking me to promote their crowd funding campaign to my audience. The irony is that – my audience is other filmmakers – they’re not the target audience for your film. So how’s that going to help you with raising money? The key [...]
Looking For A Distributor While Financing Your Film? What’s In It For Them?
I got a question in the FS Forums the other day that went something like this…. “I’ve got a film with some private equity and B list talent attached, and now I would like to bring on a distributor or sales agent and ease the mind of my investors….how do I go about doing that?” Well [...]
Micro Budget Case Study #6: We Made It To Redbox!
We’re back with another Micro Budget Case Study! Everyone always asks “How do I get my film on to Redbox”?….and at the moment the only way to do that is to get placed there by a traditional distributor. But can you get a traditional distribution deal AND manage to get picked up by Redbox with [...]
Micro Budget Case Study #5: Incremental Budget Increases
We’re back with Case Study #5 in our Micro Budget series. This time with filmmaker Jason Horton, who has written and/or directed 5 Micro-Budget features. In addition he has edited and/or dp’d another dozen. What you’ll notice about Jason’s work in the MIcro Budget space is that he has incrementally increased his budgets as he goes [...]
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