Filmmaking

What Makes A Great Movie Title? – P.M. Lipscomb

Filmcourage

Published

August 9, 2022

P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: Number one I Want To Believe, Number two Fortress, Number three Mistrust Number four Eight Slices and Number five Ladies Quilt Club Scandal.

Film Courage: Which of these movie titles do you think is fake?

P.M.: Let’s see, I would say if I did a search on IMDB either Eight Slices or I Want To Believe and I would have to say probably Eight Slices.

Film Courage: You think this is fake?

P.M.: Possibly, it feels like it.

Film Courage: Of these five, which movie title catches your eye where you might want to see this film?

P.M.: Probably the Ladies Quilt Club. I feel like it could be in the genre of horror, it could be scary or maybe only scary to a six year old. I’m not sure, perhaps it depends.

Film Courage: How would you rate these titles from best to worst?

P.M.: Best to worst, so we’ll say the best one being number five. As far as…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

Visions on set of CLOWNING with Nana Ghana (*P.M. Lipscomb* in reflection)

*P.M. Lipscomb with Nancy Pushkar onset of* Willa’s Peach

BIO:

P.M. Lipscomb has passionately made awarding-winning movies since April 23, 2006. He has made three feature films and thirty-six shorts presented at a dozen film festivals across the country. He strives to make work as a means of escape for the audience from the everyday hardships. After receiving the Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2015 for his decade of work in film, he was hired as a documentarian in Toronto, Canada to follow Jacob Barnett. P.M. Lipscomb has also taught film editing at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for a year and learned from experimental filmmakers such as Nathaniel Dorsky. P.M’s first feature film, CLOWNING was released through Gravitas Ventures and is available across many platforms. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, P.M. Lipscomb has now moved to West Hollywood, where he is preparing his next feature film. It is in the genre of horror, and is called Bickle.