I know, I know..it's a tired conversation. But let me give an different perspective..
As a black director who’s at the bottom floor of Film production (meaning the budget of my productions is whatever I can come with after the income of 2 jobs minus rent, the cost of a daily meal and child...
Your ideas may be the same, but how you execute the film will be different..I knew a guy who sold a script by "stealing" ideas from the the Screenplay blacklist..I don't think they post the full script, so what he did was make that movie his even though the idea was being used by another person..
My comment was made because it seem like the extent of African Americans films you knew of, started and ended with Sister Act-which wasn't even a "Black Film"-Sister Act Consist of Majority of white Actors with Whoopi Goldberg as the lead-maybe the website could expand your horizons-put you on...
You're missing the point-in fact you are only supporting my argument.
Census numbers has nothing to do with this..in fact it has nothing to do with filmmaking. To say and white people have a bigger history (uh hello??! America was stolen from the people who originally inhabit this land, but...
I'm curious on how many people purchases lenses as oppose to renting-I have the basic lenses, and I free lance..But I may have about 7 clients a month..Majority of the shoots are one day interviews-so I usually just rent the lenses for about 40 a day. Does anyone else do this?
My kids inspires me for two separate reasons..1. Child Support Payments (Ha!) 2. To one day be able to tell them..I came..I struggle..I conquer..And You can too!
Can you finance my next film? If you are willing to spend that much for an actress/actor (and I'm assuming they're not top of the line agency represented ) then you have cash to spare? lol..
Video Vixens (Models who appear in music videos) Usually gets 100 a day. The film that I am working on...
That's awesome that you are doing that! JD Williams is a great actor!
"Between my husband and me, we probably stream 20 movies or so a month, in addition to what we get on DVD from Netflix"
Really? Wow! I guess I never thought about married households when I first conceived this...