Filmmaking is HARD.  Making your first movie is even harder.  You have to gather all of the stuff you need to make your movie, often working with funds that you’ve saved up yourself.  Sometimes you’ll have some additional funds from your friends and family, an inheritance, crowdfunding or some other windfall, but even with any or all of those funding is likely to be tight.  

Everyone makers mistakes, the key is keeping them manageable and learning from them. Here are 5 mistakes that can cost filmmakers tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There are many issues independent filmmakers complain about when it comes to the indie film business, many all stem from the film industry coping with he same problem, Uncertainty. This article expands on that to help creatives better adapt to it.

If you want to succeed as an indie filmmaker, you need to have a network and a community. Trouble is the only major film communities in the US are New York, LA, and Atlanta. What’s stopping us from fixing that? This blog identifies problems we need to solve to expand beyond the coasts.

There’s a lot more to Distribution than Filmmakers think. Here are some things I learned at the helm of a US Distributor.

COVID-19 affected the entire world. To some degree, it still affects us all. Here’s 2023 update to some estimations I made in 2020 as to the effects of the pandemic on the industry.

If you’re a screenwriter, you’ve probably toyed with the idea of selling your script. Here’s some advice from a script doctor and a rebuttal from an executive producer.

All distributors get asked if they do anything with shorts on a shockingly frequent basis. Unfortunately, most distributors don’t do anything with shorts, as there’s a very limited market for those who watch them. Here’s how you grow beyond them.

If you want to make a living in film, it’s not enough to be creative. You also need to have a strong business sense. Here’s why that’s the case, and a guide to getting started.

If you want a career in independent film, you’re going to need to have some entrepreneurial skills. Here’s an outline for what that could look like.

If you want to make movies, you need to be an entrepreneur. Here’s why.

If you want to grow your audience and build your brand, there’s one thing that’s more important than anything else (That might even include money)

If you’ve got an issue with your sales agent or distributor paying you, it’s not neccessarily on them. (although it might well be.) either way, Its important to understand how money flows in this industry before you go at them.

Everyone wants to get their film on Netflix, but it’s a lot easier said than done. Here’s an outline.

Given that I work in film sales, marketing, and distribution I get pitched on Series content A LOT. Most of those pitches are declined unilaterally due to one major (Shockingly common) mistake.

I predicted where the state of film industry finance was heading, mixed bag.

In this older blog, I predict where the industry was headed in 2019, some hits, some misses.

If you want to raise money from an investor, you have to do your homework. That includes making a business plan. A business plan starts with an executive summary.

A lot of filmmakers are afraid to give up exclusive distritbution or sales rights out of fear of loss. Unfortunately, such a mindset all but guarantees loss of revenue. Here’s why.

If you want to make movies for a living, you’ll likely have to start a company. That alone makes you an entrepreneur, but here are 6 other reasons why.