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Have some more cities/festivals to add to the list. Upcoming screenings include:

LOS ANGELES - FRIDAY MAY 31 - 9:30pm - Dances With Films - TICKETS
OKLAHOMA CITY - FRIDAY JUNE 7 - 6:30pm -...

Kholi, we just went through this process. Please feel free to run the names of any companies by me as they come up and I'll let you know if I happened to learn anything about them, good or bad.

A lot of good things have already been said. To which I would add that one of my first rules for microbudget filmmaking is to always have a back-up in place. That includes locations if our first...

In my experience having run a campaign for a microbudget movie, "the public" isn't looking for underfunded indies by people they don't know starring actors they never heard of. out of 387 backers I'd...

If these celebrity campaigns are expanding the awareness of crowdfunding to the degree that I don't have to explain it as part of a pitch, as well as validating it as a viable means of film finance,...

Sorry for the delayed response. The screenings in Phoenix could not have gone better. The festival gave us three shows over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Our Friday night world premiere sold out. Our...

To the OP. you can do it. I made a crime thriller shot in 24 locations over 36 days on a budget of less than $40,000. including me, this movie had a crew of six. forget the "professional vs...

Here's a relevant article from The Onion (satire).

http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionate-about-then-do,31742/

Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then...

She won hers on the Art of the Guillotine podcast but they sell them too.

http://www.cafepress.com/thefilmshop/7377148

Luthor.

Thanks, I've done some experimentation using x264 and it appears to have solved all my problems. The nice thing about it is you can tune it for "film" and even "grain". the results have been stellar...

I'm trying to create a Blu-ray master for festival screenings. My first attempt was in Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 and this resulted in dark and light blocks that flicker and flutter throughout the...

Schedule was locked in a week ago and now tickets can be bought. If you're within driving distance to Phoenix, AZ please join us at our world premiere. We'll be doing a Q&A afterward and I look...

No external recorder. One was offered to me but for me, the benefit in image quality did not outweigh the extra effort it would require. we transcoded all files to pro res, sync'd to the sound...

it takes about 2 minutes to create the matte. this is not an expensive or time consuming solution.

to get the boom(s) in nice and close you can do what we did in many situations, shoot a plate and matte them out in post. pics here >>> http://thesabicompany.com/blog/2012/01/get-good-sound/

indeed. my wife, a film editor, has a t-shirt with this slogan on it.

...in other words, fix it in pre.

one thing I do is look up indie productions similar in spirit to mine and make note of the festivals it played.

Well, now I have to submit... had lunch this afternoon with a friend who recommended FLIFF too.

do you know anyone at that festival, grovechuck?

yep, that's my buddy John T. Woods.

36 day shoot, 24 locations. i'm denoising and adding grain, yes. color grade generally involves cooling down the backgrounds while bringing warmth back to the skin tones through secondaries.

Our screening times for Phoenix are locked in. April 5, 6, and 7th. If you're local, I look forward to seeing you there! Friday night at 7:15pm will be our world premiere!

Phoenix Film Festival...

I had posted this in another thread asking about features shot on the AF100 and a few people had some nice things to say. We just debuted our trailer a week ago and were fortunate enough that it got...