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My Film School Talk On Making a Movie

The other night, I did a film school talk at the UCLA film school about how to make, market and sell your movie without the middle-man.

While most of the UCLA film students in attendance agreed that my way of making a movie may not be fully inline with the studio ideal – many of these filmmakers agreed that getting a movie made is better than merely just talking about making a movie.

Thanks to familiarity with YouTube as well as access to affordable production equipment, many film school students, as well as modern filmmakers are embracing accessible, non-discriminatory distribution channels without hesitation or excuses.

And this experience is changing the ways in which filmmakers think about making a movie.

While it’s still true that making a movie can be a pain in the butt, the barriers of industry entry are down.

As a result, filmmakers are now empowered to go out and make their movie. And just in case you are not attending film school, I’ll share the BIG question you need to ask yourself as a filmmaker:

Given the resources that you have now, what is the movie that you can make this year?

MAKE. YOUR. MOVIE
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ARTICLE BY Jason Brubaker

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