Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker

This article was written by Mark Hefflinger.
“Online DVD rental service Netflix (NASD: NFLX) on Monday announced deals with a number of independent film distributors that will increase the size of its library available for instant streaming to its subscribers. The new deals with The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and [...]

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This article was written for Cause CT.
“Charities have resources and constituencies. But they are typically terrible at storytelling, the very element they need to grow their constituencies and resources. All around are “starving artists” with the inexpensive digital tools and talent to tell their stories. Film schools, let alone professionals, are producing film projects that could [...]

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This article was written by Ben Hicks.
Filmmakers can no longer JUST think about the film. We have to think about our fans more than ever before and we really have take this seriously because…OUR FANS ARE THE NEW STUDIOS!
“I want to assure everyone that this is not a joke. I understand ‘revolutionize’ is an enormous [...]

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This article was written by David Theis.
“Time and technology march on. About 100 years ago, the movies came along to kill the novel, the theater, the opera and almost every other art form besides popular music, which itself killed the symphony.
So now it’s time for the cinema’s dirt nap. The movies are dead—long live the [...]

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This article was written by Marc Halperin.
The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing, some  films are being bought and others are not. Understanding the reasons for these decisions is critical for independent filmmakers.  Film Independent recently produced a round table that focused on indie distribution. It’s an offshoot from their Filmmaker Forum, which was [...]

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This article was written by Luci Temple.
“Crowd sourcing is an innovative business model being applied to several indie filmmaker projects.

Perhaps the most publicised and obviously successful case is that of The Age of Stupid. This documentary project on global warming has raised over $1.2 million via crowd funding, and also used crowd sourcing to distribute [...]

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This article was written by Monisha Rajesh.
“When Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola came up with the idea for his movie Star Wreck, a parody of Star Trek, he knew that looking for conventional distribution would be futile. An amateur, science-fiction comedy with a miniscule budget — and in Finnish, to boot — would hardly be attractive [...]

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“201 Things You Wouldn’t Know
Without Movies or Television!”

Did [...]

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“The Internet is a super-distribution machine that allows copies of digital media to flow in an almost frictionless way. As the wealth and survival of traditional media businesses are built on selling precious copies, the free flow of free copies is undermining the established order.
If reproductions of media are free, how can we keep on [...]

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“Today’s independent film industry isn’t independent at all, says Kelley Baker, also known as the Angry Filmmaker.
“I’m angry with the way the independent film industry works … They all have Hollywood stars and big budgets,” said Baker, who will be speaking at Dormont’s Hollywood Theater Sunday. “So I stay away from the independent film movement.”
Baker [...]

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