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Hi Dready- I like the layout, straightforward and clean. Couple of things hit me straight-away: The horror film shots say "narrative" in a heavy way, but you advertise commercials at the top of the Services page... You have other shots that indicate narrative work, so wondering if you...

Great thread. Thanks to all for the suggestions and info to the O.P. and the rest of us!

I like your story idea. A few thoughts: - I think you need a "why now?" moment, that gets the story rolling quickly. - How "short" of a short film are you wanting? 5 minutes, 12? If it's less than 8 minutes or so, it may add too much complication for your available screen time to get the...

While I sentimentally agree with Alcove, do humbly disagree in terms of film credit. I asked this very question of a 40-year professional in independent film, and he said "no." (If I remember correctly, Kevin Costner's scenes were deleted and so didn't get film credit for being the dead friend...

Hi, harmonica44-- Do you have a major urgency to shoot this? Timeliness, time of year, financial, marketing or other pressing reason? If not, and you really want this to be good (and feel good about yourself) for web or other distribution... I'd put out another crew/cast call and see what...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24987804 First books I read on screenwriting, still have 'em.

L.H., sounds exciting! And you might re-think your audio quality. Get the best equipment you can afford, hire a sound recordist with his/her own. Aim for a quality level *above* YouTube. In the future you may want to put your segments on Vimeo, or some other venue, where the sound quality...

+1 to the group! This one I come to and spend time, any others (only a few), I let my computer tell me briefly through RSS feeds if it's worth going to or not...

I've heard / read this a number of times about screenplays, as well: "if you write a great screenplay..." Maybe in the old days when far, far fewer movies were being made? Hate to be so pessimistic, but I think this stuff is thrown around mostly by those wanting to make money *off* your dream...

@EuropeanDistributor Thanks for the follow-up and your thoughts!

@EuropeanDistributor Thanks for the actual interview and film dates. Guess I missed it, oops. So now I'm wondering if his strategy has current value for this/next year's AFM?...

Thanks for putting the audio interview info in text, rayw! Yes, I thought you could only list films on imdb if they are released, not in pre-pro. Said he plans to shoot in February, so that's what, summer before it's (possibly) released? Two big take-aways for me: 1. He has name talent and...

Not my film, but this writer/director had pretty good luck at AFM in *pre-sales* of his next feature, which he says goes into production in February, with name talent: http://www.filmspecific.com/public/PreSelling-Indies-A-Seminar-with-Filmmaker-Adam-Cultraro.cfm Thought I'd put out the link on...

Well, this guy believes AFM was worth it for him to attend, with a $4mil budget film. But get this, he was there for pre-sales. At the time of the interview he was still a few months away from turning on the cameras...

Congratulations! You're a good testament to "sticking to it." If you don't mind answering, did your investors gift the money or loan it to you? Thanks for sharing your experience; wouldn't it be cool to know the odds of crowdfunding working for a particular film in advance-- but how does one...

"For example, I have a meeting with the presenter of a net channel with 18 million annual views who describes my project as 'fun' and will promote it on his channel. I believe he may be happy to promote me free of charge, meaning host my trailer, write about it, interview me. If this is the...

At first blush, this seems ingenuous (and quite possibly subversive) as a pointed, information portal. I'll download the app and check it out. I like it the idea, well done.

Here's another distribution "channel;" sounds like a lot of time, energy and outreach is necessary on the part of the filmmaker to get them interested. Possibility of more than a theatre or two if it's the right project: Article: http://networkedblogs.com/PTVmx Website: http://gathr.us

Best of luck, keep us posted!

Film distribution was a "mature" business before cableTV and internet days. Then breakthroughs in distribution started happening with TV, CableTV, VHS, DVD, internet VOD.... So for now, IMHO, film distribution has matured again. Whether in my gold mining example, making personal computers or...