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  I’ll admit it. I had given up on film, forever.  I was 37, had two toddlers with special needs, found myself living in...

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  Love letter to the young, brave and broke   Alex brought me to a vacant warehouse in Connecticut in the middle of winter....

Film Festivals

Filmmaker Mike Ott gives us his take on Test Screenings, Film Festivals and a Theatrical Run outside the Film Courage studio.      ...

      Synopsis for PRAIRIE LOVE: Three lost souls look for love on the North Dakota tundra (description from IMDB page). Director:  Dusty...

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ANNE LOWER – PLAYWRIGHT/SCREENWRITER Filmmaking is hard, hard work. Every day that you walk onto set, there is an unknown. Will you get the...

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  When I began writing this article, I had no idea how to describe myself or my story.  My self-deprecation was spiraling out of...

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  Making a movie without any money, completely independent of any resemblance of a Hollywood film studio wasn’t exactly what I had dreamed of...

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Back when I lived in Pittsburgh, there was a yearly convention of furries. It was always big news, for all the reasons you can...

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Here at Film Courage we are asked repeatedly to promote or retweet projects and brands. We all want good Twitter karma and it’s nice...

Acting

  I first saw THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT at a screening the filmmakers arranged in October 98 at Anthology Film Archives on Manhattan’s lower...