Recent content by shawnwildermuth

I'm working on a documentary and I need to clear about 1 minute of clips (about 8 clips) for use in the documentary. Anyone know a good Clip Clearance company that could help me get this done?

Cutting together my Kickstarter video.

First time poster, be gentle please...or don't. Rear Window: A- Shutter Island: A (even though the twist had been spoiled for me) The Foreigner: B- Blade Runner: 2049: A

Working on booking interviews and funding for my documentary.

Teaser I think you're right. I'm still polishing it. My thought was to say how developers over-sell how hard the job is. But point taken.

I made a 30 minute doc about my neighborhood and it's history. Let me know what you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5OkOLMjpQ

So much of the discussion here is for narrative filmmakers, it's hard to dig through the girth to find documentary topics. Any chance indietalk.com would entertain the idea of running a forum (one would be enough) just for documentary filmmakers?

My name is Shawn Wildermuth and I'm a newbie documentary director. I'm currently working on a passion project called Hello World: The Film (http://helloworldfilm.com). I'm in pre-production and have shot a few other short documentaries, but I know the subject matter of the documentary much...

Good Info! Yeah, I have a pretty good following in the industry that the film is about. I'm thinking that once I finish a couple of the bigger name interviews, I could use them in the Crowdfunding video. I have a teaser, but it's not enough I think it get people involved yet.

My current plan is to look for corporate funding for about 75% of the budget and 25% in crowdfunding. So I'm now looking at grants/sponsorship, but I am thinking of whether I should do the crowdfunding early or late? (Most of my cost is in post-production). The majority of the sponsors I'm...