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5 Awesome Kickstarter Funded Filmmaking Tools
Kickstarter is a great place to pitch your film for crowdfunding, but it’s also an ideal place for funding filmmaking gadgets and tools. In fact, this area has an advantage over other creative...
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Crowd Sourcing Your Post Production Team To Make Your Short Film
Every film-maker starting out wants to make the best short film and get the best people and equipment to make it happen but often with little or no budget at all, with the hope that the idea is strong...
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Moviebytes Lists ALL the Screenwriting Contests
I wrote a while back about “Online Video Contests” about an aptly named site of the same name that has over a hundred contests. Moviebytes is very similar to that but its niche is to index ALL the...
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The Black List Is Now Open
The Black List just released their 2012 list (PDF) of the top unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. The “list” was started in 2005 by Franklin Leonard when he surveyed 100 film industry executives about...
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20 of the Best Filmmaking Related Infographics
Infographics are not only informative but also fun! They cover every topic from science to pop-culture (movies are prominent in this category – especially Star Wars– here’s one about how to defend the...
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Some Helpful Tools For Your Crowdfunding Campaign
After getting most of the financing for my film, The Tiger Hunter, I turned recently to crowd-funding on Kickstarter to get some of the last chunk of the budget. Here are several tools that helped us...
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The Black Board is the New Official Writing Community of the Black List and...
Go Into The Story, the official screenwriting blog of the Black List just announced the launch of their official forum: The Black Board. What began as a user-generated idea — to create an online forum...
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What If Seed&Spark Is Successful?
There’s been a lot already written about Seed&Spark. My first thoughts on S&S are that it’s a very interesting take on the whole crowdfunding landscape with an angle on a ‘fair trade’...
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Interactive Maps of State-By-State Film Production Incentives
There are a few great resources online with state-by-state breakdowns of film production incentives. Before you start filming, check out your state’s incentives and compare it to another. It may be...
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Amazon Storyteller, A Free Storyboard Tool
Amazon Studios just launched a new application that lets you convert your screenplay into a movie storyboard. Amazon Storyteller is free to use for anyone on Amazon Studios. Try it out – just upload...
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Prototype – The Search for the Next Great Filmmaker
Prototype is an exciting new film competition from Break Media. The competition is looking for science-fiction, action and FX genre filmmakers. Eight finalists will receive $20,000 in production...
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Equity Crowdfunding, a New Financing Opportunity for Independent Filmmakers
Last year, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (a.k.a. “Jobs Act”) (full doc PDF). The Act “requires the SEC to write rules and issue studies on capital formation,...
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Pitch Your Story to The Weinstein Company in Master Storyteller Contest
The Weinstein Company has partnered with Film.com and NextMovie to offer budding filmmakers a chance to pitch the company’s Development Executives your story via their Master Storytelling Contest. The...
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Cameo Enters the Video App Filmmaking Market
Cameo is the latest addition to the video plus social networking app market. As with every new release into this crowded marketplace – users will ask (in a whining voice) – what’s new and different...
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The Unofficial Google Plus Film Festival Returns
Call for entries are now open through November 4, 2013 for the 3rd annual Unofficial Google Plus Film Festival. The online, interactive short film fest will include several film panels – along with...
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First Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
The 2013 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship is now accepting entries until January 15th, 2014. In this – its inaugural year, the fellowship’s goal is to advance the careers of screenwriters through...
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Vimeo Offers Crowd-Funded Indie Filmmakers Access to $500K Marketing Fund
Vimeo just announced at this year’s Sundance Film Festival that they are launching an Audience Development Fund ($500,000) for qualifying films that have raised a minimum of $10,000 through a crowd...
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