So as luck would have it, the film I was going to do a how-to on, The Prayer Tree, got…
The Prayer Tree Premieres
The Prayer Tree, a new short that layers stills, sketches, and video, will premiere at the Inational Poetic Short Film…
Staying Creative on the Cheap
Over the past several blog entries, I’ve talked about how to approach filmmaking from a business point of view. But…
The Sky Is NOT Falling, Part II
I was told that I needed more pictures in my blog, so here you go. This has nothing to do…
The Sky Is Not Falling, Part I
Indie producers tell you that they can’t get their projects off the ground. Hollywood heavy-hitters like James Cameron think it’s…
Does The Nano-Budget Film Still Exist, Part II
So in the last blog entry I talked about the impossibility of trying to make the “next El Mariachi“. How…
Does The Nano-Budget Film Still Exist (Part I)
By now, indie filmmakers have a memorized list of miraculous films: Laws of Gravity, Clerks, Blood Guts Bullets and Octane,…
The Production Gestalt
The first question I ask when I’m looking at line producing a film is, of course, “what’s my rate.” The…
Thinking About Your Footprint
We’re a visual species. What we don’t see usually gets filed away into some back-storage area in our brains, only…