what's your filmography ... ?

[BennyMonday]

I'm feeling like most people in this forum are producers as well as directors. I'm curious, from my experiences and what I have heard from actors, there seems to be a worry about projects getting completed for one reason or another.
My question is, how many movies have you attempted to make and how many of those have been finished? (I'm referring to films that are completely done and submitted to festivals ... assuming that is your point of making it. This would include shorts as well as features)

Also, have you gone to film school?

 

[ToTheBack]

Well, I can supply some links:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3621260/

Those list my main 2 shorts but I have more on the way. This is my youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CapitalFProductions?feature=mhum

These include the 7 music videos I've done, some experimentals, my early and current shorts, etc. I'd say I have done about 20 projects I'm proud of, mixed and mashed of the different genres

 

[Melvin Harris]

No film school.

I finished every project I started up until a certain point. I then realized that all of the movies were garbage. So, I gave the actors footage for their reels, gas money if I could afford it, and I went into seclusion to learn. See, I think that if you don't go to film school then you have to actually make movies to learn, unless you split the difference and educate yourself while you make the movies (not let the experience solely educate you). Now, I feel more confident about my grasp of story, the craft of directing, and the art of visual storytelling, but it has been like 4 years of study which is the same length as film school, or longer, but was supremely cheaper and no less arduous and rigorous. I've still got a lot to learn but I know when something sucks and how to fix it. I know where to put my camera and what the shot says. I know more of the psychology of composition, and how to direct actors. I understand gaps and beats, intention and obstacle, and expectation and reality... and now, my new projects should reflect that. As far as actors are concerned. I used to feel guilty about not completing newer projects when I used to close them all, but then I got really honest. If it will hurt us, if it will be something that will pigeon hole us in that, "well, they must have no money," thing then it's not coming out, and if I let it get to that point, I'm not ready and need to study more.
So,
Pre-decision- 5 out of 4 (a failed feature was the start of the change)
Decision- 0 out of 2
Post-decision- X out of 13 (this is the test... about to start this journey with a loaded gun on my hip)