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Number one: your story doesn't sound low budget to me. I know low budget can mean anything below $20m but I'm presuming you're aiming at Reservoir Dogs low budget (less than $1m?). But the words 'big police showdown' do not match with low budget to me. For minimal locations and characters...

Still making it ;) In post-production at the moment. It's called Third Contact. website with teaser and stuff: http://www.thirdcontactmovie.com/

Sure, you can't get too angry when people who aren't getting paid are late or whatever. But really you have to try to encourage people to act as professionally as possible. I shot my feature over a year, shooting at weekends or when people/locations were available. One of the crew started to...

I agree. Man I'm going crazy with different opinions. My first synopsis was just as you descibed then various people, including folk who work for film PR and well known film mags, told me to write more so people understand what they're goig to see. This side of marketing is so tough. The PR...

I shot my whole feature with a 416, indoors and out. The sound isnt always perfect and I've had to re-dub some of it, but I hate fiddling around with clip mics. I bought my mic as renting causes too many headaches - not least, collecting and returning equipment. I figured over a year I would...

Doesn't look too amateurish but it does look a bit video-ish. Its video shot without too much skill. Just like film can be shot badly.

Whilst shooting THIRD CONTACT I cast several non-actors. One of my main characters was actually the make-up artist. I asked her to read the part for a telephone conversation scene. Then started to realise she would be great as the character. I find directing actors and non-actors provides...

"Too scary for me! Yikes!!" FNA Films Third Contact Teaser A pill-popping psychotherapist is struggling to deal with the loss of two people - his wife and his patient - the latter having seemingly taken his own life. When a second patient kills herself, a puzzling link between the two deaths...