5 Tips To Plan Your Film Festival Strategy

As an independent filmmaker with a short documentary about to hit the festival circuit, I am faced once again with planning my film festival strategy. It’s very easy for an independent filmmaker to get so excited about getting into a festival, that they fail to develop a solid plan. 5 Tips To Plan Your Film […]

Essential Filmmaking Advice For The Modern Filmmaker

In this filmmaking article, LA Producer Jason Brubaker provides filmmaking advice for the modern filmmaker.

What Every Filmmaker Ought to Know About VOD Film Distribution

If you think you're in business of filmmaking, think again. Your real business as a filmmaker is to build an audience. Read this movie distribution article.

15 Steps to Creating Mise-en-Scene in Your Next Film

In filmmaking, the term Mise-en-Scene refers to identifying each component through analysis and explaining the respective significance while connecting them to the film’s theme. In the following 15 steps, I’ll walk you through what you need to look for to creating the mise-en-scene in your next film. 15 Steps to Creating Mise-en-Scene in Your Next Film […]

Digital Self Distribution: How To Sell Your Movie Online

Looking to get film distribution? In this filmmaking article, we discuss digital self distribution and how to sell your movie online.

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.

The Zen of Digital Film Distribution (So You Can Sell Your Film)

The demise of DVD distribution, coupled with inexpensive production technology has flooded the marked with cheaply produced, accessible movies. For most filmmakers, basing an entire distribution strategy on outside studios “picking up” completed films is silly. Digital film distribution is now a primary way movies are getting seen and sold. This paradigm shift makes it […]

Three Tips For Digital VOD Distribution

We have entered the era of Digital VOD Distribution. In this filmmaking article, we provide three tips for Digital VOD Distribution success.

How To Break Into Hollywood (Without Moving Here)

Given advances in technology, you do not have to break into Hollywood to make money making movies. Here's how you pick up a camera and take action.

Crowdfunding For Filmmakers: How To Create Irresistible Incentives

Crowdfunding incentives (perks/rewards) are the muscle and might behind an indie film campaign. Lately, however, I see filmmakers getting less and less creative and innovative with them, so I’m sharing Chapter Fourteen of Crowdfunding for Filmmakers –– 2nd Edition exclusively with Filmmaking Stuff so you’ll know that there is more than one way to incentivize your audience to become […]

How To Become A Modern Independent Filmmaker

Some of my independent filmmaker friends consider indie film to be sacred and they avoid the studios like the plague. Other friends think studio movies are the ONLY movies that count. And they discount indies as a passing fad or a calling card to simply get noticed by the studios. If you’re like most, you […]

Five Lessons I Learned Making A Low Budget Feature

Making my low budget feature film, Earshot, was groundbreaking and exciting.  And it was also a huge learning experience. It was the first time a feature film would hit the big screen with only one actor on screen for the entire duration. Making the choice to shoot a low budget feature on film (not video), […]

How To Manage Fear Of Failure In Filmmaking

Learning how to manage fear of failure in filmmaking is essential for your success. Yet for some reason, you’re stuck. What if you attempt to make your film and it fails or falls apart? What would you do with your dreams then? You’re not alone. Odds are good you’ve met someone who has all the […]