Films have been made the same way for a long time. Since 1926 the combination of sight, sound, and general running time have become a de facto for feature films that most aspiring filmmakers aim for. The days of movie theaters being the only place to see films are over...

Filmmakers have often been afforded the luxury of only having one version of their film released. There are the anomalous films like Star Wars that have had multiple versions released long after the original and sometimes there are the movies with both a studio...

A common way for filmmakers to get into the movie game is with a short film. Many figure they can make a short film and then make it into a feature-length film, but a short film is not like a feature film only not as long.

Many indie filmmakers hold on to the hope of film critics being champions of their films and thus helping them find an audience. It is true that critics will often take on a pet film each year that they will talk about incessantly and sometimes bring the attention due it.

Indie filmmakers tend to disregard any Hollywood practice as shallow and never look into it further. Hollywood does a lot of things indie filmmakers should disregard but that doesn't mean they should not dig deeper to see what the intent is and whether...

As indie filmmakers you can't turn away any opportunity to market your film. In every process you go through to make the film you should give some consideration to what you can do make it more compelling and/or involve more people. Most films need actors and...

I've seen a pattern emerge in regards to what a filmmaker's career looks like and how it got that way. The film maker you start out as may not be the one you end up as or you may just keep doing...

The idea behind a movie producer making a film remarkable is that people will tell others about it for you. The filmmaker won't have to use marketing as a trick to hoodwink people into watching the film, rather let fans make other fans. Once a movie is remarkable...