Category: Tips and Tricks

For many filmmakers, making the film is the “easy” part. (Those quotation marks are doing a lot of work.) What doesn’t come as naturally is the discussion of distribution. If you’re trying to self-distribute, or just want to be able to nod knowingly when terms are thrown around by your chosen distributor, then you’ll need…

Spring has sprung, and that means the spring film festival season is upon us. You might be attending your very first festival as a filmmaker, whether you’re there with a film in the fest, or just as an audience member. My first film festival was SXSW in 2004. It was a bit overwhelming, and also…

There’s a an Oscar-nominated short that has been viewed over 487 million times on YouTube, making it the most-watched Oscar-nominated short ever, and probably the most-watched short film period, depending on your definition of short film. There’s a good chance you’ve seen it before. Maybe like me, you’ll think you didn’t see it before, but…