I Have to Interview a Professional independent filmmaker for school

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Kagachef101

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I'm asking for an interview of a professional filmmaker for a project for school.
Please post on this thread if you would be willing to do an interview online.
Thanks for your time.
 
i guess it depends on the style of questioning.

but id be down, not professional, but will be going to spain to shoot a documentary. ( and im an actor if you need that kind of info )
 
You are a Pro if you get your movies shown at big festivals or the big cinema.
So yeah, you can be an amateur independent filmmaker or a professional independent filmmaker.
 
Glazarus said:
You are a Pro if you get your movies shown at big festivals or the big cinema.
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I disagree. You are a professional if that's what you do for a living, and that's how you make your primary income - - no matter what field you're talking about.

There's plenty of films that get shown at "big festivals" that are made by nine to five office workers.
 
I have directed a few short sequences shown as a projection in a play, directed by another. I have also worked with informative movies where I directed actors as well.... does that make me a professional director? I don't think so. We are talking about FILMMAKERS here and a filmmaker is a professional when, yes, they can work with movies as a prime income, but ALSO, and the most important thing, is that their movies has been shown at major festivals or in the big cinema/television.

What I mean is that if I make a short that is shown and compete in Cannes, am I still then an amateur filmmaker?
It's easy to point out Pro's against amateurs in other professions, but filmmaking isn't all about money.

What about those directors that are so keen on creating a good movie that they use their own money to add to the budget? Loosing their income from it...
Then they don't really earn anything when working on it... it could be a big budget movie, but they don't have an income from it... are they amateurs?

I got a scholarship as a director, even though I'm not really a Professional director. So what am I? A pro or an amateur?

It's too loose of a term to use "pro" as a term to define income when you are a filmmaker, so I would say a Pro is someone who has shown his movie for a large audience (not through internet or some small festivals).
 
Fair enough... I'll go along with that. Make's sense. Now that we've hijacked the thread, maybe I'll let Kaga get back to his mission ;)

P.S. If you post this thread in the "cafe ala dvx" section, you'll get more responses - - actually, it should have been posted there in the first place (or "general" section)

-brown
 
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