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That is interesting. I used to work at Arclight Cinemas and to my knowledge they do not have a distribution company, unless they launched it in the last year or so.

Lead girl was cute, very likable. My only advice would be to work on your sound editing. If you want, check out my film. It is also about a female relationship: everthemovie.com

I made a feature that played at festivals, but didn't do as well as I had hoped. I guess you have to ask yourself what your end goal was supposed to be, and what it might be now after lowering your expectations. If you got into a few local festivals would that have made your career? I can pretty...

I went last year because a friend who works the event got me in. It might be a similar situation this year but I wont know until last minute. To be honest I didn't have that great of a time. You can't just walk in and take a meeting or even casually chat with any of the production companies in...

Not sure if user "indyfilm" has ever gone through the festival acceptance experience before, but under no circumstances should a filmmaker be expected to attend a festival blindly without any details from the programmers. The major glaring problem in my eyes is that the link or DVD you send in...

Completely OK to change them. There are some cases where it would not be wise to do so, like if the festival has a distinct design and is a world famous festival (Sundance or Berlin come to mind). You'd want people to be able to recognize it right away. For smaller festivals however, it's very...

In my opinion it really depends on how married you are to the script. If it's important to you that your actors say all the correct lines for your film to work, then this approach will not work. You will need to rehearse. If you don't mind your entire film being improvised, or maybe the...

I also do freelance editing, mostly here in Los Angeles. The overwhelming majority of clients use Adobe Premiere, but most of the time it doesn't necessarily matter as long as you can deliver in the specs they want. More often it's not just editing though, I'm usually shooting the videos as...

I went straight into directing a feature without doing a single short. Here's a list of things that helped me become "ready": I got on-set experience by working as an extra on film sets. Hundreds of them. Watched the crew, learned what it was like to actually make a film from the production...

I don't think you need to get too official with paperwork this early on. I would recommend contacting the people you want to work with (like the DP), and letting them know you have a project and you're looking for funding. Ask if they are interested in the script first, then you can talk about...

Yeah I was 100% talking about film festival SUBMISSION, where the programmers are watching your film privately on their computer to determine if they'll let you in the festival. Of course once you are accepted, you'll need to submit a proper DCP that has been graded and mixed for theatrical...

You are getting a lot of backlash for this comment, but I completely agree. The lost emails argument is irrelevant because you'd still be submitting to festivals through their website application, and you'd just upload your file straight to their site. No emailing whatsoever. Also, film...

I hate that major studios are mainly banking on super hero and sequel films, and only taking risks on a few seasoned directors for original films. But on the other hand, this leaves the door open for smaller production companies to release more original films and they don't have to compete with...

NO! leave it out. There's a million reasons why you'd want to leave it out. The most obvious reasons are that the shotgun mic will still pick up A LOT of that music, and also, how can you expect to edit the scene later? Assuming it's not all one single shot, the continuity of the song in the...

I agree, we need to know more about what you're filming. As a random side note, if you're looking to save money, one green screen option might be just to paint one of your entire walls green or blue. I've seen this done before and it's super convenient, super cheap, and you'll never have to...

Awesome, thanks for sharing. Just watched the trailer. Some of the acting and comedic timing was flat/slow, but overall I enjoyed it. At first I was hating on the production quality, but once I realized you were going for a kind of "The Office" vibe, I instantly forgave it and allowed myself to...

You definitely do NOT need to spend $20k on your audio to get into Sundance! First of all it really depends on the type of film you're making. There was a Sundance short a couple years ago that was just a shitty camera following around a guy talking on his cell phone. It was hilarious, the...

I just made a short film for exactly $1000 and I can tell you we barely made it happen despite the fact that we didn't have to pay for any camera equipment. I can not even imagine finding a mental hospital location for that budget, let alone paying for all the props, set design, food, and if...

I went back and re-read your post and it sounds like the other studio is helping in a big non-financial way, so maybe it's in your best interest to let them have first billing. It doesn't really affect you much so you might as well make them happy. As far as the actual labeling goes, there are...

whoever paid the most money should get to go first