I often feel that I inhabit three different personas. There’s the happy-to-be-alive, creative person, who’s excited about working in film,…
SAG – A Love Story
It’s been a little while since I covered any film business-type stuff on the blog. So I thought I’d talk…
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…