Film Courage: What have you found is the best way to make money as a filmmaker?
Ryan Harriss, Filmmaker: I think that’s a tough question. It’s important that obviously a lot of people forget that with filmmaking you have to pay people for what they do because there’s the thing in Los Angeles I’ve noticed a lot is people tend to use exposure as currency. I think that becomes Oh, well you’re going to get so much exposure if you do this for free and I think a lot of people try and get freebies from people but I think making money as a filmmaker is something that I don’t think ever gets easier. I always have to take side jobs, editing jobs or jobs on set and stuff like that. For example, I worked in a rental house and whatever you can do that’s going to pay your bills that gets you the closest to filmmaking and movie making is just as important.
Film Courage: Without naming names are you able to share one of your worst jobs?…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
Ryan Harriss was born in the lush Southern Oregon. Ever since he was 9 years old he has been making movies and telling stories.
In 2013 Ryan moved to Los Angeles, CA where he co-founded Walking Distance Productions. He has directed 3 award winning short films as well as produced over a dozen. He has written 7 feature films with writing partner Jeff Haskett-Wood.
He started directing his first feature film, Zooey, in 2018 at the age of 24 which will be released by Amazon in summer 2020. He is currently in pre-production on his next feature film.
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