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We ended our impromptu 2016 film festival run this year with 13 Laurels including 4 nominations and 2 wins. We have no choice but to consider our "proof of concept" successful and will continue fleshing out the screenplay and pursuing funding to shoot the feature "Fist of Guanto" Thanks to all...

We went with SmallHD based on reputation/reviews and budget constraints. Shot my latest film entirely in the desert sun with the additional hood they sell and their various "Focus Assist" modes. Razor. Blown away, never had an issue. Opt for a battery plate that is the same as your camera.

Inevitably these sorts of infringements would always come down to "define professional". A jury of our peers would all feel very differently about whom exactly that SJW boot should stomp in any given case. I think an independent film forum inherently, and definitely this one specifically, is...

Bingo. And also, to expand a bit, what you do in post "after" the effect is added to bring the effect and the source footage into the same space. The glue. The color grading and tweaks needed to make everything look like it happened at the same time in the same universe.

So Looklabs did a colorist profile on me last month. It might be worth the read for some. I am in no way affiliated with Looklabs, SpeedLooks or Adobe, they just happen to be the power tools that give me the results I desire after many dark years of product testing and experimentation. The...

If you are going through all of the (very tedious but crucial, bravo) work to rename your files - right in your file browser - on the fly by eye, to your shooting script, or matching your shot log sheet, then you would never want to repeat this work, nor try to figure out what clip...

None of this is true in any of the Film Festivals that we've been accepted to. No. I said I am not interested in the Academy or Sundance. In a completely separate thought (and sentence) I said I've never been accepted to a film festival that screens at a bar or a cafe. Yeesh. I suppose I...

Cannot speak to Sundance or the Oscars, and never intend to. But I can speak to just about everything else from a "boots currently on the ground in the midst of a film festival circuit run" perspective. Stereo is perfectly acceptable. Also worth noting we have never been selected or nominated...

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Holy crap, I hadn't popped in for a couple days after posting this. You guys are completely insane, wow! I've lost a great deal of life investing (in every sense of that word) in my passion projects, so to stumble upon this feedback is rather overwhelming. Sincerely and deeply appreciated guys.

Oh christ no. Seeing some one mentioned Deliverance, easily the most popular, a bunch of classics come to mind off cuff... Lawrence of Arabia, Midnight Cowboy, Myra Breckinridge, Killing Zoe. And while everyone is quick to note Pulp Fiction let's not forget Major Marquis' cringe worthy...

Last night we accepted the award for BEST WESTERN FILM at the 5th Annual Laughlin International Film Festival. This was not only an amazing honor but also an amazing fest and an awards ceremony that rivaled many I've watched on TV. We have screened at much less organized and accommodating...

The most important takeaway from this, from an independent filmmaker's perspective, is to always bear in mind, while looking at the ridiculous amounts of zeros rolling around, that 1B movies do not necessarily equate into "good art" by any stetch of the imagination (how ironic that I use the...

Actually I'd go with "Parade" any day of the week. Far sexier word. Of course if I were writing this I'd say "The elephants stampede". :) That aside, jeez you guys are all saints here, this thread (and its multiple counterparts) is surreal. Hmmm... Here is a differing opinion. People, even...

Personally, if you are confident this wont be your last project on this scale, I would build, or purchase, an actual dedicated NLE, which you'll find out quickly are all PC based. Twice the horsepower for half the cost and you can crack 'em open and tweak/upgrade in your sleep. FCP fell way out...

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Cool. And I am not considering any aspect of your talents or career or whatever beyond screenwriting, per your post. So it is important that I clarify I wasn't referring to blocking in its typical sense, which is going through a scene from your final draft with your actors during a rehearsal or...

The existence of 3 separate 'scipt consultants' specialized in 3 stages that you made up is fascinating to me. I could see a guy that is better at rewrites (AKA: The Fixer) or doesn't want to be bothered with half-baked material or something but other than that any "spec script" reader is always...

While part of my job is to be interesting (thanks btw), it was indeed a misread. Think more along the lines of humor and sarcasm... as well as me being deeply sardonic about the bigger picture of the topic. The post went from a sincere concern (or at least posturing as such) about being...

Or perspired.