Cannes is winding down and to be honest, there hasn’t been much to talk about since last week when I released my early dispatches: . Theatrical Level vs. VOD Level Movies . The Real Reason Behind The Decline Of Pre-Sales . If you’ve been following the news in the trades on your own, you’ve probably seen […] The post Cannes Dispatch: Gaining Access & The Theatrical Conundrum appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

Have you been following Cannes news? If you missed my post from the other day you can check it out here – it’s part of my Film Finance Series and I talked about how to know if you’re making a theatrical level film vs. a VOD film. . The gist of my previous post was […] The post Film Finance Series: The Real Reason Behind The Decline Of Pre-Sales appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

I hope you’re having a great week! . With Cannes Film Festival and Market kicking off tomorrow, there will be a lot of news to take in this week. I recommend downloading the online dailies of Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Screen International to keep up with everything and gather intel. . Of course I will be compiling […] The post Film Finance Series: Cannes Theatrical vs. VOD Movies appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

Last week we discussed the lead up to Cannes and my Film Finance series intro, and today I want to start things off by talking about mitigating investors risk…. specifically, is there really any way to mitigate investors risk anymore when financing independent films? . There was a time when I would have said yes […] The post Film Finance Series: The Myth Of Mitigating Investors Risk appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

As tomorrow is the first day of May I thought I’d kick off the month leading up to the Cannes Film Market with an email series on Film Financing, since many of you will either be attending and looking for financing, or working towards leveraging the ‘heat’ of the market to attract financing to your project. . And you absolutely should […] The post Lead Up To Cannes – Film Finance Series Intro appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

MIPTV is in full swing and last week we left off talking about Turning Films Into Series and I touched briefly on TV movies which is where I want to pick things up today. . Back when I was a sales agent we did a hefty domestic and international business selling features to networks like Lifetime and ABC Family in […] The post Movies For TV – Still A Booming Business appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

I get a lot of questions lately about turning feature films into series since the market seems to be so much ‘hotter’ over on the TV side these days. . For example, this can work especially well with material that has been adapted from a book because it’s usually easier to stretch the narrative from […] The post Friday Dispatch: Turning Films Into Series appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

It’s been a busy few weeks for me which is why you haven’t seen me in your inbox as much as usual :) As Q1 draws into a close I’m in the process of screening one of my completed films for agency representation, and on the TV side we just wrapped pilot production on a something I’ve been working […] The post Festivals & Markets (+ how to optimize them) appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably noticed that the term ‘filmmaker’ these days is used very liberally and now encompasses thousands of You Tube creators calling themselves just that…. . This new breed of filmmaker likely haven’t gone to film school…nor are they interested in making a feature length film. Instead they focus on making […] The post A New Breed Of Filmmakers Are Thriving (are you one of them?) appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more

Something you may have noticed in all my talk about TV lately is that the real ‘crossover advantage’ we film producers have in that world is that we are already accustomed to multi-party financing, packaging, and dealing with more complex finance plans than traditional TV producers are. . I’m going to get into more detail on all this in my […] The post Bringing The Indie Film Model To TV appeared first on Startup Filmmaker ..read more