In talking with a mixture of private clients, FS members, and the Facebook community this past week one thing that seems to be going on right now is that everyone is ‘stuck’ somewhere. Stuck waiting to hear back from a distributor….stuck waiting to hear back from talent….stuck trying to find the money to make their [...]

Well we’re back again with another Case Study in our Micro Budget Filmmaking series. This time around, we’re visiting with filmmaker Greg Derochie who is very close to profitability on his micro budget film SOLITARY. What’s interesting about Greg’s story is how he’s achieving success through traditional distribution, rather than the self distribution we saw [...]

Curious about real VOD (Video On Demand) numbers? I’ve been getting asked that question a LOT lately and so I want to try and showcase some filmmakers who are actually generating revenue from VOD platforms, and hopefully give you a few tips along the way This first case study I unearthed is from Ryan Barton-Grimley [...]

In our previous Micro Budget Case Study, we saw how filmmaker Chad Haufschild mastered the art of the $10K budget range with his film WAKE THE WITCH. This week, we’re taking things one step further as we look at Steve Hudgins’ production company Big Biting Pig Productions who have produced a slate of 6 films [...]

In last week’s post I talked about Finding A Producer For Your Film, but what if you’re like me and you ARE the producer of your film – not the writer looking for a Producer, but the ‘buck stops here’ one responsible for raising financing for your film Producer? Well I wanted to share with [...]

The second Micro Budget Case Study in our series is Chad Haufschild’s WAKE THE WITCH.  Similar to our first case study, the WAKE THE WITCH filmmakers also took advantage of traditional distribution deals to pursue profitability.  However because they operated on a lower budget ($10K vs. $65K), WAKE THE WITCH has already achieved profitability, which is [...]

I’ve been promising you guys for a couple weeks that I was going to come up with some Micro Budget case studies – basically to showcase some of the filmmakers who are experiencing success at this budget level (success being defined as getting distribution for their films, achieving profitability, or both). If you attended my Virtual [...]

For many of you, selling your script to a Producer is your primary goal in the business. Maybe the thought of independently producing it yourself is unappealing (especially the part about finding money!)….or you’ve ‘been there, done that’ on a previous project and want to move up the ladder now …. or maybe you’re just [...]

Something that has really gotten my goat lately is this pervading attitude that traditional distributors are bad for you. There’s a whole bunch of people out there trying to tell you – “don’t give away all your rights to some distributor…keep control of your rights and self-distribute so the money comes to your pocket, not [...]