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Yeah, Vimeo, and if you want to do a premiere on YouTube (if you're willing to have no control over who sees your film and how many times) usually you can contact them and get a slot for the whole thing (1GB, I believe) but the movie has to be basically rated PG, and of course, no copyrighted...

And this is what sweeping independent film, worldwide. Especially after Danny Boyle did 127 Hours with the 5D and 7D mostly, people shit their pants. An Oscar caliber film shot on a DSLR? That's allowed? Of course broke independents have been shooting with it for well over a year now, the 7D...

Yet another year I'll miss it, pretty sure our Camera Operator and Director of Photography are going, separately, as they've tended to do the past few years. I'm back east for the moment so I won't be able to make it, but have fun, it's the coolest toy show on Earth.

But that's the rental business. Filmmakers do know their films are rented across the nation with no royalties, this is why studios do revenue sharing. Does Rev Share still screw the small indies? Of course. Get used to it, that's part of being a small indy. Your movie will be rated...

I've sent friends to theater shows, and had them pick the 3 actors they liked the most. Then I told them to go up to those actors, mention you would like to see if they would be interested in film acting. Most stage actors (at the college level) are just DYING to be film actors in the long...

The lesson there is never take money from anyone you wouldn't make a partner.

Agreed. Here's the scary part though, despite it's massive critical success, Four Lions has just barely made its miniscule budget back starting with DVD and Blu Ray. So if the best of the bunch is barely not a commercial failure, can anything win in this genre? I'm thinking no, as much as I...

Yeah, their job is to sell things, not help you make the best film. I dunno, I'm not a huge camera guy, but to me the T2i looks a lot like the 5D and 7D. People are shooting features with those left and right. Worry less about your camera and more about art direction, blocking, lighting, and...

If you wrote this scene the way you initially described, it all depends, rating-wise. I mean, you could show the first cut of your film to two different MPAA rating groups and get two different ratings. It's a crap shoot. If you're asking the tell-tale things that will get you an NC-17...

I'm out of California at the moment, but before leaving, people were accepting jobs at even lower rates than that, just because of the drought of work. But you're right, all too often I find myself on a set with great actors, director, writers, all working well to make something great, but...

I have a friend that shot in Detroit (a native Detroiter) who got most of his help for free or very little pay. We're currently prepping a feature for the Detroit area and we have budgeted at least $75 a day for everyone (and of course higher for the key players), all the way down to PA's, so...

What I'm more curious about is their streaming. I know of avenues to get on Netflix streaming independently (3rd party brokers are everywhere for iTunes, Netflix, Cable & Amazon VOD now) but I'm wondering what one of these films would get in viewership via streaming. I'm finishing up a feature...

The other interesting thing is they give you a lot of room to point it where you want it pointed, and it shows you the amount of people likely to maybe be interested in it. I dunno, I signed up, they gave me $50 in credit, never got a single click. I suppose I could blame that on the movie...

Take it from me, $20k in the hole and all I did in 2 years at a film school (one of which you mentioned) was learn with friends after class, making our own films outside the strict regulations of the school itself. Once I realized that, I promptly quit, and here I am, I've made more films...