How To Make It In Hollywood
If you’re wondering how to make it Hollywood, you are not alone. In this filmmaking article, we share practical tips on how to make it in Hollywood.
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How to Take Charge of Your Social Media So You Can Reach Your Audience
As a filmmaker, your audience is your business. Without an audience, you have no business. Leverage social media to build an audience.
Make Your Own Online Movie Marketing Machine
If you want your movie to succeed, you need to start building your online movie marketing machine today, not later. Read this film distribution article.
Why Filmmakers Fail At Film Festivals
I have been speaking at quite a few film festivals. And what I find is, many filmmakers are still stuck in an old paradigm that no longer exists. In the past, most filmmakers dreamed of getting their movies seen and sold at festivals, followed by a 3 picture deal. But the reality is, these types of deals are…
3 Useful Tools So You Can Build An Email List For Your Film
With the demise of traditional DVD distribution, you as a filmmaker are responsible for your audience. Why? Because your audience is your business – and without an audience you will have no movie business. Having an audience database for your movie is essential…
Film Distribution: How To Get Your Movie To Market Fast
In this filmmaking article, LA Producer Jason Brubaker explains why most filmmakers wait seven months before selling their movies and why you shouldn’t.
How To Avoid Major Filmmaking Headaches
As a filmmaker, you are focused on making a movie. You have a gazillion things on your plate. And the last thing you …
How to Take Charge of Your Movie Marketing Strategy
Are you looking for a movie marketing strategy? In this filmmaking article, we provide an overview of a basic movie marketing strategy.
Five Filmmaker Success Tactics You Need To Utilize
If you’re filmmaker seeking practical filmmaking tips you can use TODAY, I’d like so share some thoughts with you. The world of filmmaking is changing. Producing content is getting cheaper. And distribution outlets are becoming increasingly accessible. While these changes have not fully hit mainstream Hollywood, you can rest assured that it’s only a matter of time until the ripple effect has a leveling impact.
How to Avoid Crappy Video On Demand Distribution Deals
Many filmmakers with an independent movie and no deal make the mistake of forking over their VOD rights to bottom-feeding traditional DVD distribution companies, promising to their titles onto iTunes. In some cases, these filmmakers give up their rights for up to seven years.Why?
The Great Self Distribution Hoax
In this filmmaking article, we explains the great self distribution hoax and why there is no such thing as traditional distribution deal. Read more…
Thoughts On Film School
In this article, Hollywood film producer Jason Brubaker shares his thoughts on the pros and cons of film school for aspiring filmmakers currently weighing the options between traditional film school (and the price tag) or one of the many hands-on filmmaking education alternatives…
Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and the Art of Preparation for Crowdfunding Filmmakers
In this crowdfunding article, John T. Trigonis shares advice for crowdfunding filmmakers about the importance of prep in any crowdfunding campaign.
Five Steps to Make a Living in Filmmaking
If you want to make a living in filmmaking, you’re in the right place. The one thing I absolutely love about being a …
Crowdfunding Total Frat Movie
Anyone that’s ever worked on a film knows that money is always tight and can only be stretched so far. That’s one of …
Film Crowdfunding
There are a lot of filmmakers who think it’s still 1990. While it is nice to dream of Hollywood deals, the Modern Moviemaker …
How To Get Into Filmmaking Without Asking Permission
In my ongoing effort to highlight filmmakers who forgo excuses and take action to get movies seen and sold, I would like to …
Filmmaking Podcasts
As a filmmaker, your time should be spent making movies or thinking about your next movie. And while this is ideal, it’s not practical. Outside of the creative process, each of us has obligations to family, our community and possibly…
Blackmagic Camera and NAB Recap
Here is a breakdown of some of the key stories from NAB 2012 for indie filmmakers, including news of the Blackmagic Camera and NAB recap…
Future filmmaking BOOK Coming Soon!
For those of you following filmmaking stuff, you know that I have been working on an awesome and comprehensive filmmaking book for quite …
Filmmaking Stuff Gets Updated
If you’ve been reading Filmmaking Stuff for any length of time, you probably noticed that things are changing around here. When I first started this site I had no idea that it would become one of the most popular filmmaking websites in existence…
Become a movie marketer
If you are going to increase your odds of movie success, you need to find out how to become a movie marketer. To get started, I recommend spending as much time as possible learning about internet marketing.
Showbiz Expo
If you are planning to attend the Showbiz Expo, make sure you check out my talk on “How To Sell Your Movie Without The Middle Man.” I go on at 11AM and will provide some valuable tips on how to get your movie seen and selling.
MovieMaking Tools
If you’re looking for moviemaking tools, here is my list of top picks…
Make Filmmaking Your Business
As a filmmaker, before you make your movie, you have to seriously decide if you can stay excited about your story for the long haul…
NoFilmSchool On CrowdFunding
With sites like Indie GoGo and Kickstarter, filmmakers can finally raise money without asking permission. And while the vast majority of filmmakers limit their crowdfunding campaigns to a few thousand dollars – some filmmakers get super ambitious…
Are You Making These Mistakes In Filmmaking?
Independent moviemaking has changed forever. If you are still holding out for the Sundance dream, you are wasting your time. What is the Sundance dream? It’s the thought that you’ll make a movie, get into Sundance and garner a gazillion dollars…
How To Design A DVD Cover
Regardless of distribution technology, your audience still values the visual representation of your movie as a tangible product. And in ways akin to marketing an eBook via Amazon Kindle, you still need a killer design to represent your movie.
Filmmaker Levi Abrino Hits The Big Time
Before I moved to Los Angles, I stopped by my Pennsylvanian hometown for the Harrisburg Arts Film Festival. And there I saw a short movie called Burying Dvorak by a little known filmmaker named Levi Abrino. I gotta tell you, the film was awesome. Levi is talented…
Why Two Movies in One Day Is Good For Filmmakers
As we enter the remaining six months of 2011, I am trying very hard to do a little less grinding, and hopefully finding time to have a lot more fun…